TY - CONF AU - Salton, G. AU - Buckley, C. A2 - T1 - On the use of spreading activation methods in automatic information T2 - SIGIR '88: Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval PB - ACM Press CY - New York, NY, USA PY - 1988/ M2 - VL - IS - SP - 147 EP - 160 UR - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=62447&dl=ACM&coll=GUIDE M3 - http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/62437.62447 KW - *** KW - spreading KW - ir KW - semantic KW - msn KW - network KW - evaluation KW - activation L1 - SN - 2-7061-0309-4 N1 - On the use of spreading activation methods in automatic information N1 - AB - 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. ER -