Semantic Flowchart Generator
Overview
The Semantic Flowchart Generator is a Hellixia feature that produces a Semantic Flowchart, a graph in which nodes represent entities (concepts, events, or steps) and arcs capture temporal dependencies between them.
Temporal dependencies mean “what happens before influences what happens after” — they are treated as a specific type of causal link (since a cause must precede its effect). This makes Semantic Flowcharts ideal for modeling processes, sequences, pathways, or event chains described in text or elicited from an LLM.
Usage
You can launch the Semantic Flowchart Generator in two ways, with important distinctions.
Menus > Hellixia > Document Analysis > Semantic Flowchart Generator, which requires a document for analysis.
Menus > Hellixia > Semantic Flowchart Generator, which requires a node as a starting point, with an optional knowledge file.
In both cases, the generator queries a Large Language Model to extract entities and the temporal dependencies among them directly from the LLM’s embedded knowledge (or from a document if a Knowledge File is provided).
Output
- Nodes: extracted entities (e.g., steps in a medical procedure, events in a story).
- Arcs: directed links representing temporal order — which event must happen before the next.
- No quantification: like the Causal Semantic Diagram, a Semantic Flowchart is a qualitative graph; it does not estimate effect sizes.