The “Rendez-vous société” section of the midday news “12:45” of the television channel “RTS One” of the Swiss Radio Television broadcasting services in French, May 11, 2016.

Invited by the journalist Fanny Moille, the Prof. Michelle Bergada of the University of Geneva and Claude-Alain Roten - cofounder of OrphAnalytics SA - answered questions concerning the struggle against fraud by plagiarism or ghostwriting.

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"The ghost behind my bachelor thesis: ghostwriting is a common problem at universities. Picture : Martin Barraud (plainpicture)"

Article from Stefania Telesca, published by the "Tages Anzeiger" newspaper the 24 Februrary 2016. Translation performed by the OrphAnalytics team.

Two researchers from Lausanne have developed a software application for ghostwriting detection. But can a computer program distinguish authors? We did the test.

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Article published in French in Uniscope n° 515 (magazine of the University of Lausanne), January 15 - February 28 2006, pages 22-23. PDF

The prophets of the Bible were probably unaware of the existence of bacteria. That was a mistake: these unicellular organisms turn out to be dread sneaks. In this surprising adventure, life sciences meet linguistics and theology.

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