Usage of computer software for text matching

This material is a translation of an original paper written by Jānis Kreicbergs and published on the web site of University of Latvia. Jānis Kreicbergs is one of the first persons in Latvia who started to develop a national unified computerized plagiarism control system. In this material, he discusses general operation principles of text-matching software and nuances of its functioning that should be taken into account when developing new or using existent text-matching software.

This is a translation from Latvian to English. Some parts of the original text are not included. The included text is modified by slightly changing the terminology and introducing the global context whilst keeping the national perspective.