Sintelix Network Model

Nodes

Nodes can be imported directly or created from documents. Simple nodes can be clustered. Clustering is configurable.

The network node hierarchy

• Additional node - optional
  • Communities
  • Email Threads
  • Topics
• Clustered node - optional
  • grouped entities
• Simple node

Links

Nodes can be associated via Links, as follows:

• between network nodes (i.e. between simple nodes, clustered nodes and additional nodes)
• between document entities
• between network nodes and document entities and text references

Node and link fields

Nodes and Links can have properties, which are termed fields. These are based on items which have a value and a type:

item:

• value
• type - one of:
• string - searchable as an exact match]
• phrase (tokenised string) - searchable by partial match on tokens
• datum - not searchable

For lists the types are pluralized to: strings, phrases, data, ints, longs and doubles.

Complex structures

Items can be bound into name structures each with a name:

single item:

• name
• value

list of items:

• name
• items

map of items:

• name
• map (key (string) -> value)