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Correction
21 Oct 2024: The PLOS ONE Editors (2024) Correction: Application of LDA and word2vec to detect English off-topic composition. PLOS ONE 19(10): e0312710. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312710 View correction
Retraction
Following the publication of this article [1], the corresponding author contacted the journal to request retraction.
Upon editorial follow up, similarities were noted between this article and a previous publication by another group [2]. The corresponding author has stated that the methods and part of the data in this article were provided by a third party and came from the previously published article [2].
In light of these issues, the PLOS ONE Editors retract this article [1].
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15 Mar 2023: The PLOS ONE Editors (2023) Retraction: Application of LDA and word2vec to detect English off-topic composition. PLOS ONE 18(3): e0283315. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283315 View retraction
Citation: Qi Y, He J (2022) Application of LDA and word2vec to detect English off-topic composition. PLoS ONE 17(2): e0264552. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264552
Editor: Seyedali Mirjalili, Torrens University Australia, AUSTRALIA
Received: August 9, 2021; Accepted: February 13, 2022; Published: February 25, 2022
Copyright: © . Due to the similarity of this article with a previously published work, the article contents were removed from PLOS ONE after retraction. Readers are hereby on notice that the removed contents are not offered under the Creative Commons Attribution License; see the accompanying retraction notice for details.
Data Availability: The Data Availability statement was deleted at the time of the article's removal. See the accompanying retraction notice for more information.
Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.