Possible Areas of Application of Artificial Intelligence in Libraries and Information Centers

Abstract

The concept of artificial intelligence arose in the middle of the 20th century, but the rapid development of one specific area for the implementation of artificial intelligence, namely, neural networks, has only occurred over the past 10 years. Neural networks have come to process huge amounts of information, extract its essence, compose a coherent text on their basis that cannot be distinguished from a human one, and conduct a conversation, taking context into account. These capabilities of neural networks can find everyday use in library activities for automatic annotation of documents, cataloging images, searching for similar documents, analyzing bibliographic references in scientific articles, and so on. Then, the information stored in libraries can be used to train neural networks.