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IJSREM67240
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Sep 2026
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Information Technology
Andhra University
Department of CS&SE,
Andhra University
The burgeoning number of publications has made peer reviewers, editorial panels, and universities responsible for evaluating papers' originality and quality in terms of time constraints. Currently, manual reviewing is considered the gold standard but at the same time suffers from slow pace, variation in performance of individual reviewers, and lack of scalability in face of rapidly growing submission volumes in fields of engineering and applied sciences. We present a novel approach to automated reviewing of research papers through LLM-based multi-criteria evaluation and semantic plagiarism checking based on SBERT embeddings and FAISS indexing. In our solution, the input is a manuscript in PDF form, which is being segmented into its structural components utilizing two-stage processing: regular-expression pattern recognition and SciBERT-based classifier as fallback. Afterward, structured summarization and novelty detection, semantic plagiarism detection and generation of qualitative reviews conditioned on evidence is performed. Our approach takes into account six factors of evaluating paper quality: novelty, methodological correctness, clarity of writing, grounding in literature, grammatical errors and technical complexity. and results in an interpretable score. In contrast to typical plagiarism checking tools, which mostly use lexical or exact matching, the proposed system detects similar concepts using dense vector representations, thus being able to detect paraphrased plagiarism. Our evaluation of the system on a pilot data set shows that it is capable of generating consistent and interpretable assessment results similar to those done by humans in peer review. The presented system provides a scalable, explainable, and replicable framework which can assist authors, reviewers, and journal editors in pre-submission screening of manuscripts, thus decreasing reviewers' workloads.
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This paper described the design and implementation of a modular hybrid NLP system for automated research-paper evaluation, combining PDF ingestion and validation, section-aware summarization, semantic novelty detection through Sentence-Transformer embeddings and FAISS retrieval, deterministic multi-dimensional evaluation scoring, rule-based reviewer-feedback generation, and independent segment-level plagiarism detection within a single FastAPI-based pipeline. The principal technical contributions are the section-aware construction of the novelty-detection query, the explicit architectural and conceptual separation of whole-document novelty assessment from passage-level plagiarism detection despite their shared retrieval infrastructure, and the traceability afforded by keeping evaluation scoring and review generation deterministic and rule-based rather than delegating them to opaque model inference. Qualitative evidence from an end-to-end run of the deployed system confirms that the pipeline executes successfully on a real manuscript and produces populated summary, review, scoring, novelty, and plagiarism outputs through its web interface; quantitative accuracy, agreement with human reviewers, and performance figures were not measured in this study and are identified explicitly as requiring controlled future evaluation rather than being estimated. The system's practical significance lies in its potential use as a preliminary, reviewer-support screening tool that can surface structural gaps, unsupported claims, and candidate similarity concerns before a manuscript reaches a human reviewer or editor, reducing the portion of routine checking that must be performed manually, while explicitly not functioning as a substitute for expert peer judgment.
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9/12/2026
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