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This paper describes the evaluation of a spreading activation model for information retrieval. Different configurations of this model were applied to the problem of discovering cross references for a hypertext version of a legal research textbook. The cirs (Connectionist Information Retrieval System) is described. Six different weighting schemes for links between neurons were evaluated, using human indexed cross references.
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Bustos, R.A., Gedeon, T.D. (1999). Evaluation of Connectionist Information Retrieval in a Legal Document Collection. In: Zadeh, L.A., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Computing with Words in Information/Intelligent Systems 2. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 34. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-1872-7_20
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