"‘Tortured phrases’ give away fabricated research papers"
Simultaneously disturbing and hilarious examples of automated synonyms to get around plagiarism detection:
Further investigation revealed that these strange terms — which they dub “tortured phrases” — are probably the result of automated translation or software that attempts to disguise plagiarism. And they seem to be rife in computer-science papers.
Some examples:
Scientific term Tortured phrase Big data Colossal information Artificial intelligence Counterfeit consciousness Deep neural network Profound neural organization … …
I wonder what it is for “machine learning”? Contraption knowing? Gearbox culture?
Moral of the story: don’t fake your papers.
Jim Bagrow
Associate Professor of Mathematics & Statistics
My research interests include complex networks, computational social science, and data science.