If I ever do get to write a PhD,I will have to make sure to run it through this detector (as well covered in the New Scientist). Seriously though,this sounds like a great way to show off the computational linguistics (or more specifically data/text mining) experiments. Hopefully such projects will make the field more visible and more interesting to others.
On the project itself,I wonder how it would deal with papers produced by people for whom English is not their first language.
