Literacy – A Superpower That is Still Not Available To Everyone

Last Saturday the ‘World Book Day’ was celebrated around the globe – which is deeply connected with a cause that I’m passionate about: Literacy. You can’t read a book without the ability to read, and it is an ability that some children in this world still don’t get the chance to obtain. What is ‘reading […]
Why Originality in Business Administration is Crucial for Your Company’s Success

The hidden dangers of using business process templates to overcome complexity challenges What is the ultimate business goal of a company? There are many approaches for defining this. A common definition from a micro-economic perspective is to say that the goal of probably every business is to be ‘successful’. Regardless of how success is defined […]
Plagiarism detection for businesses: How original is your applicant’s CV really

Are your applicants the persons they claim to be? CVs, role descriptions and motivational letters are increasingly available online. In business, it can pose danger to companies’ work quality and performance and reputation.
Indonesia’s Biggest Hybrid University at the Forefront of Safeguarding Academic Integrity

Universitas Terbuka prevents plagiarism using the Ouriginal text-matching solution. The goal is to provide every student with the chance to develop their full potential.
Business and originality – its importance is ever growing

Content is king in every business. It defines your business, your product and service offerings – and in order to be different and interesting to your customers, it needs to be unique.
Celebrating a Milestone: Ouriginal’s 1st Anniversary!

When Urkund and PlagScan joined forces and became Ouriginal, exactly one year ago, a new chapter in the fight against plagiarism was written.
The Future of Writing Style Analyses: Ouriginal Metrics as a Learning Analytics Tool

In the last two parts of this series (part 1, part 2) on computational linguistics and writing style analytics, we mostly discussed how stylometry can be used to detect ghostwriters. Besides this scenario, Ouriginal Metrics could also be used as a learning analytics tool to analyze students writing styles, help them to improve their writing skills.
Computational Linguistics To Uncover Ghostwriters And Unfair Contract Cheating – And Its Limitations

According to previous theoretical discussions and experimental results in stylometry, genre and topic interference can make differentiation between authors harder. This is because shared word and phrase usage that accompanies writing on the same topic as well as the writing conventions for particular genres make it difficult to identify a strong authorial signature to be used for author verification.
The Catalyst Effect Of The Pandemic On Education: Confronting The New Reality In 2021

Education needs a basic medium that can teach (such as an educator), a medium that contains and ‘delivers’ knowledge (such as books and other materials), and a medium where knowledge can be ‘exercised’ (such as a pen and paper for assignments).
Ghostwriting Detection and Writing Style Analysis: Interesting Basics

No matter who did it for them – relatives, friends, freelancers or even professional agencies – in 2020, educators worldwide witnessed a huge increase in the submission of assignments that were not written by the students that claimed to have written it.