SubmissionNumber#=%=#74 FinalPaperTitle#=%=#Team jelarson at SemEval 2024 Task 8: Predicting Boundary Line Between Human and Machine Generated Text ShortPaperTitle#=%=# NumberOfPages#=%=#8 CopyrightSigned#=%=#Joseph Larson JobTitle#==# Organization#==# Abstract#==#In this paper, we handle the task of building a system that, given a document written first by a human and then finished by an LLM, the system must determine the transition word i.e. where the machine begins to write. We built a system by examining the data for textual anomalies and combining a method of heuristic approaches with a linear regression model based on the text length of each document. Author{1}{Firstname}#=%=#Joseph E. Author{1}{Lastname}#=%=#Larson Author{1}{Username}#=%=#jelarson Author{1}{Email}#=%=#joelarso@iu.edu Author{1}{Affiliation}#=%=#Indiana University Author{2}{Firstname}#=%=#Francis Author{2}{Lastname}#=%=#Tyers Author{2}{Email}#=%=#ftyers@indiana.edu Author{2}{Affiliation}#=%=#Indiana University ========== èéáğö