@article{crestani1997spreading, abstract = {This paper surveys the use of Spreading Activation techniques onSemantic Networks in Associative Information Retrieval. The majorSpreading Activation models are presented and their applications toIR is surveyed. A number of works in this area are criticallyanalyzed in order to study the relevance of Spreading Activation forassociative IR. ER -}, author = {Crestani, F.}, interhash = {3dfe398bb588335ffc562088d5a509de}, intrahash = {c26c16e0a8036000b788fada656f59dd}, journal = {Artificial Intelligence Review}, month = {December}, number = 6, pages = {453--482}, title = {Application of Spreading Activation Techniques in Information Retrieval}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1006569829653}, volume = 11, year = 1997 }