Hi,
I am planning to make a Plagiarism Detector as my Computer Science Engineering final year project,for which I would like to take your suggestions on how to go about it.
I would appreciate if you could suggest which all fields in CS I need to focus on and also the language which would be the most appropriate to implement in.
The language is nearly irrelevant. Another questions exists that discusses this a bit more. Basically, the method suggested there is to use Google. Extract parts of the target-text, and search for them on Google.
you better try python,cause its easy to develop a program using this..i'm also doing a project on plagiarism detector..i suggest u to tokenize the string first..actually it is complicated but this is the way if u r trying to develop for source code,else if u r developing plagiarism detector for text file use cosine similarity method,LCS method or simply considering position..