Application of Spreading Activation Techniques in Information Retrieval

Artificial Intelligence Review

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 453-482

  Crestani, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Associative information retrieval; Information processing; Information storage and retrieval; Knowledge representation; Semantic networks; Spreading activation

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATIVE STORAGE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA RECORDING; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

ASSOCIATIVE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEMANTIC NETWORKS; SPREADING ACTIVATION TECHNIQUES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0031537711     PISSN: 02692821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006569829653     Document Type: Article

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