在各国文坛上,剽窃他人作品的词句或思想的“文抄公”比比皆是。有关专家认为,发现文学界“逐字逐句”照抄的“文抄公”较容易,但要抓获学术界“末拼西凑”的更为高明的“文抄公”则困难得多了。原因很简单:全世界同一学科、同一专题的论文多如牛毛,而且由于过分专业化而不为大众所熟悉。为了遏止文学界、学术界的剽窃风,美国伊里诺斯大学的科学家们最近研制了一种“剽窃检测机”。该机只需一人操作,所需电脑软件市场上均可购得,使用的方法是:将受怀疑的文章送到一电子扫描器内,扫描器即把文章的不同字体统 In literary circles in various countries, “literary copy public” who plagiarize the words or thoughts of other people’s works abounds. Relevant experts think it is much more difficult to find “literary copy” which is literally “verbatim” written by the literary world. However, it is much more difficult to capture the more sophisticated “literary copyrights” that the academic circles put forward to “scrapping together”. The reason is simple: the same subject in the world, many papers on the same topic, and because of over-specialization is not familiar with the public. In order to stop the literary and academic plagiarism, scientists at the University of Illinois recently developed a “plagiarism detector.” The machine only one person operation, the required computer software market are available, the use of the method is: the suspect article sent to an electronic scanner, the scanner that the article different fonts