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.

@inproceedings{salton1988spreading, author = {Salton, G. and Buckley, C.}, title = {On the use of spreading activation methods in automatic information}, booktitle = {SIGIR '88: Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval}, publisher = {ACM Press}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, year = {1988}, pages = {147--160}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=62447&dl=ACM&coll=GUIDE}, doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/62437.62447}, isbn = {2-7061-0309-4}, keywords = {***, spreading, ir, semantic, msn, network, evaluation, activation}, 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.} }

%0 = inproceedings %A = Salton, G. and Buckley, C. %B = SIGIR '88: Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval %C = New York, NY, USA %D = 1988 %I = ACM Press %T = On the use of spreading activation methods in automatic information %U = http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=62447&dl=ACM&coll=GUIDE