Detecting GPT-Assisted Writing Using Interpretable Stylometric Features
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Title:Detecting GPT-Assisted Writing Using Interpretable Stylometric Features
Abstract:Distinguishing GPT-assisted from independently authored student writing has become a critical challenge in academia. This paper evaluates the discriminative capability of interpretable stylometric features extracted solely from submitted text. Using data from 90 participants who wrote both independently and with ChatGPT assistance, we evaluate eight machine learning classifiers while keeping data from the same participant together during validation. On the held-out test set, Random Forest achieved an ROC-AUC of 0.87 and an F1-score of 0.84, with False Positive and False Negative rates of 22.2% and 11.1%, respectively. SHAP analysis shows that lexical and grammatical characteristics drive the resulting predictions. The findings suggest that transparent, text-intrinsic features provide measurable signal for detecting GPT-assisted writing.
| Comments: | 10 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables |
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computers and Society (cs.CY) |
| ACM classes: | I.2.7; I.2.6; I.5.4 |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2609.26687 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2609.26687v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.26687
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| Journal reference: | Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2027 |
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