A new hybrid methodology for intelligent Chinese character recognition

A new methodology is proposed to combine fuzzy possibilistic reasoning with knowledge mining of syntax dynamics using hybrid recurrent nets. The structure of Chinese characters consists of a 3-layer hierarchy of character, radical and stroke. Fuzzy possibilistic reasoning is an appropriate set of algorithmic tools to aid automatic recognition of these characters. Associative memory artificial neural network algorithms form a suitable technique for realising these concepts. Several issues are explored: vagueness of radicals, their situation, position invariance, extraction order and shape. Hybrid recurrent nets are proposed to deal with recognition at the syntax level. Each character is the 2D output of a syntax generating system, which is subjected to a knowledge mining process to determine its behaviour parameters. The knowledge mining architecture consists of an extensible recurrent hybrid net hierarchy of multiagents where the composite behaviour of agents at any one level is determined by those of the level immediately below.