Abstract:

The  application of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought innovation to basic science research and industry in recently years. This paper briefly reviews and analyzes the research and development of artificial intelligence technologies such as expert systems, natural language processing, pattern recognition, robotics and machine learning in the fields of library information retrieval, reference service, cataloging, classification, acquisitions, circulation and automation. By analyzing the papers published on both domestic and international journals, studying the practices of latest AI applications in industry, this paper finds that the current AI applications in the library are still in the narrow AI or weak AI/machine learning phase. However, the emerging technology of face recognition, arranging and organizing book shelves by robots, natural language processing based on machine learning, chat robot based on artificial neural networks are making library more automatic. Especially, this paper looks into the possibilities of applying general AI or strong AI technologies into the retrieval system of libraries.

Key words: Artificial Intelligence(AI), Library, Machine learning, Deep learning, Neural networks, Biometrics identification