  With the help of online tools, unscrupulous authors can today generate a
pseudo-scientific article and attempt to publish it. Some of these tools work
by replacing or paraphrasing existing texts to produce new content, but they
have a tendency to generate nonsensical expressions. A recent study introduced
the concept of 'tortured phrase', an unexpected odd phrase that appears instead
of the fixed expression. E.g. counterfeit consciousness instead of artificial
intelligence. The present study aims at investigating how tortured phrases,
that are not yet listed, can be detected automatically. We conducted several
experiments, including non-neural binary classification, neural binary
classification and cosine similarity comparison of the phrase tokens, yielding
noticeable results.
