In this paper, we are building on top of the psycholinguistic findings that words are recognized faster if preceded by words related in meaning (semantic priming) (Gulan and Valerjev, 2010), and we adopt spreading activation theory as one of the main theories that tries to explain how priming occurs.
we introduce a framework that considers sequential text reading and models two simultaneous processes: (i) a spreading activation process that runs over long-term memory (approximated by the knowledge graph), activates concepts and transfers them to working memory, and (ii) a process that tracks concepts and their activation in working memory and subjects them to forgetting.