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Publishers Withdraw More than 120 Gibberish Papers

posted by janrinok on Monday March 03 2014, @09:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the twas-brillig-and-the-slithy-toves dept.

AnonTechie writes:

"The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer-generated nonsense.

Over the past two years, computer scientist Cyril Labbe of Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, has catalogued computer-generated papers that made it into more than 30 published conference proceedings between 2008 and 2013. Sixteen appeared in publications by Springer, which is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, and more than 100 were published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), based in New York. Both publishers, which were privately informed by Labbe, say that they are now removing the papers.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by theluggage on Tuesday March 04 2014, @12:10AM

    by theluggage (1797) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @12:10AM (#10361)

    I had nothing to do with the parent post but everything to do with this: http://markovswisdom.blogspot.com/ [blogspot.com]

    Wow - that's sophisticated.

    I just plugged the output of a "lorem ipsum" utility [littleipsum.com] into Google Translate. And I got modded +5! so just think what could be achieved with a really sophisticated posting generator.

    Come to think of it... hello...? is there actually anybody out there?

  • (Score: 1) by gishzida on Tuesday March 04 2014, @12:54AM

    by gishzida (2870) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @12:54AM (#10376) Journal

    Who do you think is doing the moderation? It's what you get for taking one of those funny colored capsules they talk about in the movies. You never know where you'll wake up.

    • (Score: 1) by Taibhsear on Tuesday March 04 2014, @06:22PM

      by Taibhsear (1464) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @06:22PM (#10834)

      Who do you think is doing the moderation? It's what you get for taking one of those funny colored capsules they talk about in the movies. You never know where you'll wake up.

      Usually, the local drunk tank.