(6 Dec 2022) We’ve all had some kind of interaction with a chatbot. It’s usually a little pop-up in the corner of a website, offering customer support – often clunky to navigate – and almost always frustratingly non-specific. But imagine a chatbot, enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI), that can not only expertly answer your questions,…
(1 Nov 2022) Abstract: Now that artificial intelligence (AI) tools are being widely used across academic publishing, how can we make informed assessments of these utilities? There is a need for a set of skills for evaluating new tools and measuring existing ones, which should enable anyone commissioning or managing AI utilities to understand what…
(15 Sep 2022) The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will invest $130 million over four years, pending the availability of funds, to accelerate the widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) by the biomedical and behavioral research communities. The NIH Common Fund’s Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI) program is assembling team members from diverse disciplines and…
(15 Sep 2022) Research England has commissioned a study of whether artificial intelligence could be used to predict the quality of research outputs based on analysis of journal abstracts, in a move that could potentially remove the need for peer review from the Research Excellence Framework (REF). The study, part of a broader review of the…
(9 Sep 2022) The Gangbuk District Office in Seoul said Thursday it was introducing an artificial intelligence (AI)-based book recommendation service using big data. This service is designed to raise the revisiting rate for the libraries within the district by recommending less-known good books rather than best-selling or new books. The district office said…
(28 Jun 2022) Cassyni, the platform for organising, running and publishing research seminars, is launching a next-generation AI video product to enrich and extract knowledge from thousands of hours of research videos. Cassyni’s technology automatically transforms unstructured research videos into structured searchable content with navigable chapters, high-quality transcripts, extracted slides from speaker presentations and resolved references.…
(18 Feb 2022) AI in publishing is no longer just a novelty; it is being applied at various points in the publication pipeline. Further, the growing volume of open access scholarly content, including datasets and code, provides a rich resource for training datasets. See how AI assists in the works of authors, editors, reviewers…
(27 Jan 2022) Singapore’s public libraries have been adopting data analytics and AI to develop more immersive and personalised visitor experiences. They have also introduced robots and automation to simplify and shrink the workload of librarians. Ramachandran Narayanan, Director and Deputy Chief Information Officer, National Library Board (NLB), Singapore highlights the tech tools that are…
(21 Dec 2021) Just before a study appears in any of ten journals published by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), it undergoes an unusual extra check. Since January 2021, the AACR has been using artificial intelligence (AI) software on all manuscripts it has provisionally accepted after peer review. The aim is to automatically…
(19 Oct 2021) The newly piloted program from Springer Nature has been demonstrated to translate manuscripts into English from Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese and French, the company says. In an announcement from its offices in Heidelberg and London, Holtzbrinck’s Springer Nature is saying to the scholarly community that it has auto-translation services that now…