TOPIC-INFLUENCED DOCUMENT RELATIONSHIP GRAPHS

Provided is a process of enhancing or suppressing measures of relationships between documents based on the relationships arising from text pertaining to selected topics, the process including: obtaining a corpus of documents; obtaining a set of topics by self-extracting topics according to the tokens present in text of the documents or manual provision; receiving a selected topic among the set of topics, the selection indicating that relationships between the documents are to be enhanced or suppressed in virtue of the relationships arising from text relating to the selected topic; forming a relationship graph of the documents, wherein: the relationships between pairs of the documents are determined based on co-occurrence of n-grams in the pairs of the documents, and wherein the relationships are enhanced or suppressed in response to co-occurring n-grams being in the respective set of n-grams of the selected topic.