It was precisely in Sydney, Australia, where Marcelo Mendoza, DCC UC academic and principal researcher at CENIA and associate researcher at Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), presented two new techniques for language models like GPT-4o, Claude and Gemini to extract key data from news articles and formulate questions and answers like a…
The project “Intelligent Assistant for the Analysis of Formal Sources of Law,” through which the IMFD Innovation team proposes a tool for managing the legal sources used in Chile, was awarded the StartUp Ciencia 2025 fund, granted by ANID. “Thanks to the completion of various projects in this field, as well as our interaction with…
Putting scientifically-backed knowledge generated under the umbrella of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) at the service of the people: this is the goal of the IMFD’s Innovation and Technology Transfer Division, which now has new leadership under Hernán Sarmiento, PhD in Computer Science from Universidad de Chile. “One of my main…
Applications are open until April 15 for the first free Clinical Natural Language Processing course for students and professionals from health and engineering fields in Chile at: https://plnclinico.imfd.cl/ “One of the most important challenges when trying to use different artificial intelligence tools in the healthcare field is that most of patients’ clinical information is written…
The city of Santiago, Chile hosted for the first time the KHIPU 2025 conference, the most important artificial intelligence gathering in Latin America, which took place from March 10 to 14, 2025. This event brought together more than 500 attendees from academia, industry, and other leaders in the field, becoming a crucial platform for artificial…
Matías Toro (DCC U. Chile), Sebastián Ferrada (Data & Artificial Intelligence FCFM Universidad de Chile) and Naim Bro (School of Government UAI) are the three IMFD researchers who are receiving these funds granted by ANID. The Fondecyt de Iniciación grants seek to strengthen the development of excellent scientific and technological research by promoting new researchers…
The value of research and work with data and data science: this is what the new podcast from the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) seeks to address. The podcast was selected among the applications to the Ciencia Pública funds and will be directed by the IMFD communications coordinator, Paula Mónica Silva, together…
The award recognizes the most impactful papers presented over the past decade at the International Conference on Database Theory, whether in terms of research, methodology, conceptual contributions, or practical applications. This year’s selected paper is titled “Regular Queries on Graph Databases” and, in addition to Juan Reutter, professor at the Department of Computer Science UC,…
Between January 13 and 17, 2025, the Democracy and Ecology Secondary School took place, a civic education initiative jointly promoted by the Millennium Institute for Research on Violence and Democracy (VioDemos) and the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity. The intensive program spanned 5 days in which 32 students from public and private schools across 14…
From January 21 to 29, the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science 2025 (SICSS) took place for the second time in Chile, with the goal of expanding knowledge in computational social sciences, promoting interdisciplinary participation among those belonging to these fields. Over seven days, keynotes, workshops, and tutorials were held at the San Joaquín Campus…
A recent study titled “Unsupervised Framing Analysis for Social Media Discourse in Polarizing Events,” by IMFD researchers Hernán Sarmiento (Innovación IMFD), Jorge Ortiz (DCC UCH), Felipe Bravo-Márquez (DCC UCH) and Sebastián Valenzuela (PUC), together with Marcelo Santos (UDP) and Ricardo Córdova, was published in the prestigious journal ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), of the…
Using the knowledge and advances created in academia to solve problems that affect people: this is one of the goals of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), whose Innovation area, in partnership with Cero.ai, recently won the project “Prioritization of patients on waiting lists using Artificial Intelligence” from the Ministry of Health….
January 2025.- One of the most interesting challenges in the field of natural language processing (NLP) is free text recognition. This is the challenge faced by the Innovation and Technology Transfer Division of IMFD in collaborative work with the Superintendencia de Seguridad Social (SUSESO), which had as its main focus the optimization of claims filing…
January, 2025.- The Association for Computing Machinery, the most prestigious organization in the field of computing and computer science worldwide, recognized Marcelo Arenas, academic at the Department of Computer Science UC and the Institute of Mathematical and Computational Engineering UC, and IMFD researcher, as a Fellow of the ACM. This award recognizes the top 1%…
December, 2024.- Magdalena Saldaña, faculty member at the Facultad de Comunicaciones PUC and IMFD researcher, has been honored with a prestigious recognition awarded by the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna in Austria: the “Paul Lazarsfeld Professorship.” This award is granted to outstanding academics with an innovative profile in the fields of…