Submitted by [deleted] t3_ypzbp5 in MachineLearning
Mechanical_Number t1_ivme2zm wrote
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- This is an extremely serious accusation.
- Even in your blog-post you at best provide ~12 sentences/very short passages that are reworded and/or copied verbatim.
- You can raise a valid point about the C-P ones are not properly annotated. Yes, a serious issue indeed. It is unacceptable, they should be in quotes, italics, etc.
- The reworded ones you provided are mostly descriptions of some known systems. I haven't read the thesis itself but that's pretty minor, ultimately you describe system/algorithm/procedure X you are going to use similar words.
- Twelve instances at best constitute reason to make minor amendments. If we are talking about an an average PhD thesis that is 100+ pages long, all the passages you give probably amount to a page or a page and a half. Again, should they be fixed? Yes.
- I somewhat doubt you appreciate what the spirit of plagiarism in a PhD thesis is. I have seen plagiarised theses and we are talking about c-p multiple pages, using the results of other people as your own, claiming substantial findings with data/work that ain't you own. The instances you give? That's some lazy referencing and lax refereeing. Not great but the world has much, much bigger fish to fry.
- You have blown this completely out of proportion.
(And to state the obvious here, I have no affiliation with Theodorou, Bath U. or Umea U.)
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