In many fact-finding investigations, notably parliamentary inquiries, process chronologies are created to reconstruct how a controversial policy or decision came into existence. Current approaches, like timelines, lack the expressiveness to represent the variety of relations in which historic events may link to the overall chronology. This obfuscates the nature of the interdependence among the events, and the texts from which they are distilled. Based on explorative interviews with expert analysts, we propose an extended, rich set of relationships. We describe how these can be visualized as TimeFlows. We provide an example of such a visualization by illustrating the Childcare Benefits Scandal -- an affair that deeply affected Dutch politics in recent years. This work extends the scope of existing process discovery research into the direction of unveiling non-repetitive processes from unstructured information objects.

翻译：在许多事实调查中，尤其是议会调查中，会创建流程时间序列以重构一项有争议的政策或决定是如何形成的。当前的方法（如时间线）缺乏足够的表现力，无法呈现历史事件与整体时间序列之间可能存在的多种关系。这模糊了事件之间以及从文本中提炼出的相互依存关系的本质。基于与专家分析师的探索性访谈，我们提出了一套扩展且丰富的关系集合。我们描述了如何将这些关系可视化为TimeFlows的形态。通过说明近年来深刻影响荷兰政治的“儿童保育福利丑闻”事件，我们提供了此类可视化示例。本研究将现有流程发现研究的范围扩展到了从非结构化信息对象中揭示非重复性流程的方向。