Detection of tortured phrases in scientific literature

This paper presents various automatic detection methods to extract so called tortured phrases from scientific papers. These tortured phrases, e.g. flag to clamor instead of signal to noise, are the results of paraphrasing tools used to escape plagiarism detection. We built a dataset and evaluated several strategies to flag previously undocumented tortured phrases. The proposed and tested methods are based on language models and either on embeddings similarities or on predictions of masked token. We found that an approach using …

cs.ai cs.cl cs.dl cs.ir dataset detection detection methods extract literature noise paper papers paraphrasing plagiarism signal strategies tools