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2020 年高考英语时事热点拓展阅读(十六) Passage1《科学美国人》：中学生作弊被神经网络捕获。 词数 285 建议阅读时间 4 分钟 The English-language version of Wikipedia has almost six million articles. And if youre a cheating student,thats sixmillion essaysalreadywritten foryou, footnotes and all. Except plagiarism isnt really an effective tactic—just plug the text into a search engine andgameover. But what about having a ghostwriter at a paper millcomposeyour finalessay? Standardplagiarism softwarecannot detectthiskindofcheating. Stephan Lorenzen, a data analyst at the University of Copenhagen. In Denmark, where hes based,ghostwriting is a growingproblem at high schools. So Lorenzen andhis colleagues created aprogram called Ghostwriter that can detectthecheats. At its core is a neural network trained and tested on 130,000 real essays from 10,000 Danish students.After reading through tens of thousands of essays labeled as being written by the same author or not, the machine taught itself to tune into the characteristics that might tip off cheating. For example, did a students essays share the same styles of punctuation? The same spelling mistakes?Weretheabbreviationsthe same? By scrutinizing inconsistencies like those, Ghostwriter was able to pinpoint a cheated essay nearly 90 percent of the time. The team presented the results at the European Symposium on ArtificialNeuralNetworks,ComputationalIntelligenceandMachineLearning. And theres one more aspect here that could help students. Your high school essays presumably get better over time asyou learn towrite—andthemachine can detect that. The final idea is to de