Sintelix Object Model

Sintelix works with both documents and networks A container that stores information in nodes and links. See Nodes and Links topic for more information. Internally, these are represented via the Sintelix Document Model and the Sintelix Network Model. Within Sintelix, Document Processing creates the Sintelix Document Model and Network Creation creates Sintelix networks from Sintelix documents.

A generic example of the object structure across documents and networks is shown below.

The object hierarchy

Networks:

• Additional Node - optional
• Clustered Node - optional
• Simple Node

Documents:

• Entity - optional
• Reference (‘text reference’)

Associations

Objects can be associated via links and connections, as follows:

• Link
  • between network nodes (that is, between nodes, clustered nodes and additional nodes)
  • between document entities
  • between network nodes and document entities and text references
• Connection
  • between document text references

Remarks

1. The basic object in a Sintelix document is the text reference. Depending on the output table settings in the Document Processing configuration a text reference type (for example, Person) may be clustered within the document to become an entity - or otherwise created as an entity, for example via a Document Processing Script.
2. The base object of the network is the ‘Simple Node’ which can be created from either an entity or a text reference within the document model via the Network Creation configuration.
3. Clustering of simple nodes (that is, cross-document entity grouping) is optional and applies to clustered nodes.
4. Network Expansion is also optional and applied to clustered nodes to become additional nodes.
5. Clustered nodes are created by clustering simple nodes. Additional nodes are created by clustering Clustered nodes.