%0 Journal Article %1 crestani1997spreading %A Crestani, F. %D 1997 %J Artificial Intelligence Review %K *** activation information ir msn network retrieval search semantic spreading survey %N 6 %P 453--482 %T Application of Spreading Activation Techniques in Information Retrieval %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1006569829653 %V 11 %X 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 -