System for comparing content
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorTom Killalea
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A method for comparing content can include receiving first content generated by an author over a communications medium and comparing at least a portion of the first content to at least a portion of second content using one or more content-matching techniques to detect matched content. The method may further include providing content-matching feedback over the communications medium. The content-matching feedback can include suggestions for changing at least a portion of the first content based on the matched content. In some implementations, the first content can include a document written by the author, and the second content can include one or more publications.
Claims30
A system for generating content-matching feedback on author-generated documents, the system comprising:
- a content matching engine comprising computer hardware configured to:
- provide a user interface for authors to submit documents for content matching feedback to avoid accidental plagiarism,
- receive a document from an author over a communications medium, the document generated by the author,
- compare at least a portion of the document to at least a portion of one or more first publications using one or more pattern-matching techniques,
- generate content-matching feedback responsive to the comparison, the content-matching feedback comprising suggestions for correcting attribution errors in the document to thereby assist the author in avoiding accidental plagiarism,
- generate a certificate certifying that the document was checked for plagiarism, thereby enabling the author to indicate to a reviewing entity that the document was checked for plagiarism, and
- output the content-matching feedback for display to the author;
- and
- a research recommender in communication with the content matching engine, the research recommender configured to:
- detect publication associations between a plurality of second publications based at least in part on citations in text of the plurality of second publications,
- generate one or more research recommendations based at least in part on cited publications in the text of the document and on the publication associations, the one or more research recommendations comprising one or more of the second publications that have publication associations with one or more of the cited publications in the text of the document, and
- output a subset of the one or more research recommendations for display to the author.
A computer-implemented method for generating content-matching feedback on author-generated documents, the method comprising:
- providing functionality for authors to submit documents for content matching feedback to avoid accidental plagiarism;
- receiving a document from an author over a communications medium;
- receiving a request from the author for content-matching feedback about the document;
- generating content-matching feedback responsive to the request, the generating of content-matching feedback comprising performing a content matching analysis of at least a portion of the document with at least a portion of one or more second documents to thereby assist the author in avoiding accidental plagiarism;
- generating a certificate certifying that the document was checked for plagiarism, thereby enabling the author to indicate to a reviewing entity that the document was checked for plagiarism;
- detecting publication associations among a plurality of publications based at least in part on a number of times the publications citations were cited together;
- generating one or more research recommendations based at least in part on citations in the document and on the publication associations, the one or more research recommendations comprising a citation to at least one of the publications;
- and
- outputting the content-matching feedback and the one or more research recommendations for display to the author;
- wherein at least said generating content-matching feedback is performed by a computer system comprising computer hardware.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a computer-executable component, the computer-executable component comprising computer instructions configured to cause one or more processors to at least:
- submit a document generated by an author over a communications medium to a content matching engine in response to a request from the author for content-matching feedback to avoid accidental plagiarism;
- receive content-matching feedback from the content matching engine over the communications medium, the content-matching feedback comprising suggestions for correcting any attribution errors in text of the document to thereby assist the author with avoiding accidental plagiarism;
- receive a certificate from the content matching engine, the certificate certifying that the document was checked for plagiarism, thereby enabling the author to indicate to a reviewing entity that the document was checked for plagiarism;
- and
- provide configuration settings, the configuration settings comprising options for adjusting the content-matching feedback received from the content matching engine.
A computer-implemented method for comparing content, the method comprising:
- providing functionality for authors to submit content for plagiarism checking;
- receiving first content generated by an author;
- comparing at least a portion of the first content to at least a portion of second content using one or more content-matching techniques to detect matched content,
- providing content-matching feedback to the author, the content-matching feedback comprising suggestions for changing at least a portion of the first content based on the matched content;
- providing a certificate certifying that the first content was checked for plagiarism, thereby enabling the author to indicate to a reviewing entity that the first content was checked for plagiarism;
- and
- providing configuration settings to the author, the configuration settings comprising options for adjusting the content-matching feedback provided;
- wherein the method is performed by a computer system comprising computer hardware.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.