@inproceedings{salton1988spreading,
  abstract = {Spreading activation methods have been recommended in information retrieval to expand the search vocabulary and to complement the retrieved document sets. The spreading activation strategy is reminiscent of earlier associative indexing and retrieval systems. Some spreading activation procedures are briefly described, and evaluation output is given, reflecting the effectiveness of one of the proposed procedures.},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  author = {Salton, G. and Buckley, C.},
  booktitle = {SIGIR '88: Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval},
  doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/62437.62447},
  interhash = {7fdb31627e1a45ce109c7245fb6462b9},
  intrahash = {994aef0486e69095ee0d8ba5b3e3a91c},
  isbn = {2-7061-0309-4},
  location = {Grenoble, France},
  pages = {147--160},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  title = {On the use of spreading activation methods in automatic information},
  url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=62447&dl=ACM&coll=GUIDE},
  year = 1988
}

@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.
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  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
}