PAN 2010 - Evaluation Campaign on Plagiarism Detection and Wikipedia Vandalism Detection (PAN)

Evaluation Campaign on Plagiarism Detection and Wikipedia Vandalism Detection
The 4th International Workshop on Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse PAN-10 will be held as an evaluation lab in conjunction with the CLEF conference in Padua, Italy, on September 20-23, 2010 [ flyer ].

This year's edition divides into two tasks, namely plagiarism detection and Wikipedia vandalism detection.

Plagiarism detection in text documents is a challenging retrieval task: today's detection systems are faced with intricate situations, such as obfuscated plagiarism or plagiarism within and across languages. Moreover, the source of a plagiarism case may be hidden in a large collection of documents, or it may not be available at all. Following the success of our 2009 campaign on plagiarism detection, and based on our experience we will provide a revised evaluation corpus consisting of artificial and simulated plagiarism.

Vandalism has always been one of Wikipedia's biggest problems. However, the detection of vandalism is done mostly manually by volunteers, and research on automatic vandalism detection is still in its infancy. Hence, solutions are to be developed which aid Wikipedians in their efforts.

We invite researcher and practitioners from all research areas to participate in one or both of the tasks.

Award
Yahoo! Research will award a cash prize of 500 Euros to the winner of the plagiarism detection task.