%0 %0 Journal Article %A Crestani, F. %D 1997 %T Application of Spreading Activation Techniques in Information Retrieval %E %B Artificial Intelligence Review %C %I %V 11 %6 %N 6 %P 453--482 %& %Y %S %7 %8 December %9 %? %! %Z %@ %( %) %* %L %M %1 %2 SpringerLink - Zeitschriftenbeitrag %3 article %4 %# %$ %F crestani1997spreading %K ***, activation, information, ir, msn, network, retrieval, search, semantic, spreading, survey %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 - %Z %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1006569829653 %+ %^