FST Graduate Research Topic

Research Topic: Rebuild Broken Characters, Words, and Incomplete Sentences, for Archaeologists
Suggested By: Maiga Chang
Last Update: March 19th, 2025

As we know, archaeologists always find broken characters, words, and incomplete sentences, from the walls, stone plates, poles etc. The proble is the archaeologists need to spend a lot of time in guessing and filling the broken characters and blanks between words. Could current computer technologies provide an efficient and reliable help to archaeologists solving the task? This research requires researchers to use relative research results and theories in computational intelligence, for examples, data association rule mechanism in data mining (e.g. Apriori), evolutionary algorithms in evolutionary computation (e.g. genetic algorithms), and artificial immune systems in evolutionary computation (e.g. immune networks), to either design a mechanism and algorithm or develop a system to rebuild broken words and incomplete sentences for the archaeologists automatically. For the project-based students, you have to develop a workable system and test it with real data in any modern/ancient languages.