Abstract

This paper surveys the use of Spreading Activation techniques on Semantic Networks in Associative Information Retrieval. The major Spreading Activation models are presented and their applications to IR is surveyed. A number of works in this area are critically analyzed in order to study the relevance of Spreading Activation for associative IR. Key words: spreading activation, information storage and retrieval, semantic networks, associative information retrieval, information processing, knowledge representation.

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