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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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Crestani, F. Application of Spreading Activation Techniques in Information Retrieval. Artificial Intelligence Review 11, 453–482 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006569829653
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