Overview of the AraPlagDet PAN@FIRE2015 Shared Task on Arabic Plagiarism Detection

is the first shared task that addresses the evaluation of plagiarism detection methods for Arabic texts. It has two sub- tasks, namely external plagiarism detection and intrinsic plagiarism detection. A total of 8 runs have been submitted and tested on the standardized corpora developed for the track. This overview paper describes these evaluation corpora, discusses the participants' methods, and highlights their building blocks that could be language dependent.