**August, 2022.-** Cinthia Sánchez, PhD candidate in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science of Universidad de Chile and IMFD student, is researching the problem of data scarcity, in order to create new multilingual and multi-domain models to classify crisis-related messages, enabling their generalization to different critical tasks in crisis management. Her research A…
August 2022.- The Gender Commission presents its series #EllasInvestigan, which will showcase the work of one of our researchers and students. María Magdalena Walker, a student at IMFD and the Facultad de Comunicaciones de la P. Universidad Católica de Chile, researches morning TV shows as a new element of discussion and explanation of what happens…
August, 2022.- Diego Rebollo, Marcelo Lemus, Diego Arias, and Benjamín Oyarzún, four of the national champions of the 10th Chilean Informatics Olympiad (OCI), will be representing Chile at the 34th International Olympiad in Informatics, to be held in August of this year in Indonesia. These four selected participants emerged from an intensive training program involving…
July 2022.- The sixth IMFD Research Seminar featured Felipe Bravo, IMFD Young Researcher and academic at the Department of Computer Science of Universidad de Chile, who presented the research “Tackling Fairness: Change and Polysemy in Word Embeddings.” The main topic was word change through Natural Language Processing (NLP). The main goal of the presented research…
June 2022.- How has the meaning of words changed over time? Do “planta” or “villano” have the same semantic definition in the 1800s as in the 2000s? Discovering these variations using computational models was the challenge posed to researchers from around the world who participated in the “Lexical Semantic Change Discovery Shared Task“, a competition…
July, 2022.-As part of the closing of the constitutional process, Plataforma Telar, an initiative of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) together with the United Nations Development Programme, published two studies addressing different milestones before and during the operation of the Constitutional Convention. The presentation ceremony, “La paridad si importa“, was held at…
June 2022.- Pollution in these areas has not only damaged the marine ecosystem and the quality of agricultural land, affecting fishermen and farmers: added to this is the social deterioration in the communities, the constant feeling of insecurity, and hopelessness. These are some of the findings recorded in the study “Zona de sacrificio: contaminación, empleo…
May 2022.- Juan Reutter, faculty member at the Departamento de Ciencia de la Computación de la U. Católica (DCC UC), has recently taken on the role of new alternate director of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). Pablo Barceló, director of the Instituto de Ingeniería Matemática y Computacional de la U. Católica (IMC…
June 2022.- With broad participation, a new Research Seminar was held at the offices of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). The talk “Compact Data Structures” by Gonzalo Navarro, IMFD researcher and academic at the Department of Computer Science of the Universidad de Chile, presented advances in compact database structures, which the researcher…
May 2022.- IMFD researchers Aidan Hogan and Claudio Gutiérrez, faculty members of the Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación, (DCC U. Chile), together with other experts from around the world, wrote the book Knowledge Graphs, which seeks to give an integrated view of knowledge graphs, both in the academic world and in industry. Knowledge Graphs…
May, 2022.- A platform to connect academia with legislative advisors and a survey of official open-source data from the country are some of the standout initiatives that the five students who participated in the 2022 edition of the IMFD Innovation Lab worked on. The Innovation Lab for Students is an initiative of the Innovation Unit…
May 2022.– Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) researcher Benjamín Bustos is one of the academics from Universidad de Chile who received the title of Full Professor, the highest academic rank at this institution. Benjamín Bustos is an associate researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and an academic at the…
April 2022.- Following the popular uprising of October 2019, social media users significantly increased the circulation of content from alternative media over traditional media. This is one of the main conclusions reached by researchers from the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), based on an analysis of Facebook interactions with 1,221,487 posts from 31…
May, 2022.- Andrea Rodríguez, associate researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), has been re-elected as Vice-Rector for Research and Development of Universidad de Concepción (UdeC), a position she will hold from May 14th of this year until 2026. Regarding her re-election, the vice-rector stated that one of her main tasks will…
April, 2022.- The team of national champions of the 10th Chilean Informatics Olympiad (OCI) is in the midst of preparing to represent Chile at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), which this year will be held in Indonesia. The OCI is the most important school informatics competition held in Chile, and it is supported by…