July, 2024.- Three IMFD works are featured in the recent edition of Communications of the ACM: Latin American Regional Special Section. The special issue, coordinated by Fabio Kon (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sebastian Uchitel (University of Buenos Aires), and IMFD researcher and DCC UCH academic, Barbara Poblete, aims to present the region’s most interesting…
How gender stereotypes and body image concerns manifest in online diet and fitness forums: this is the focus of the research “Feelings about Bodies: Emotions on Diet and Fitness Forums Reveal Gendered Stereotypes and Body Image Concerns”, in which PhD student from the Computer Science Department of Universidad de Chile and IMFD, Cinthia Sánchez, took…
July, 2024.– From June 20 to 24, the 74th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) was held in Gold Coast, Australia, with the participation of Magdalena Saldaña and Sebastián Valenzuela, both IMFD researchers and faculty members of the School of Communications of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. The ICA conference is the…
July 2024.- A group of four students, led by Marcelo Mendoza, faculty member at DCC UC and researcher at IMFD and Cenia, took first place in DIPROMATS 2024, the NLP challenge on propaganda and narrative detection at the Iberian Languages Evaluation Forum 2024. The team, made up of Miguel Fernández (IMFD and DCC UC PhD…
July 2024.- An algorithm to estimate node centrality in a network, which is competitive in accuracy with machine learning methods, is the innovative proposal that researchers Francisco Plana, PhD in Computing from the Universidad de Chile, Andrés Abeliuk, academic at DCC U. Chile and IMFD collaborating researcher, and Jorge Pérez, former IMFD researcher and co-founder…
August, 2024.- For the first time in its history, the most prestigious international conference in data science, ACM SIGMOD/PODS, was held in Latin America, with Chile as the host country. One of the sections of this important conference is the presentation of cutting-edge prototypes of new data management systems. What is sought in these prototypes…
“Worst-Case-Optimal Similarity Joins on Graph Databases” is the title of the research presented at SIGMOD/PODS 2024 by Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) researchers Benjamín Bustos, Aidan Hogan (IMFD deputy director) and Gonzalo Navarro, from Computer Science at U. de Chile; Diego Arroyuelo and IMFD director Juan Reutter, from Computer Science at U. Católica,…
**June 2024.-** From June 9 to 14, one of the most influential international conferences in data science takes place in Chile: [**SIGMOD/PODS 2024**](https://2024.sigmod.org/index.shtml). At this gathering, held for the first time in Latin America, researchers from the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) present their work, run tutorials, and demonstrate computational developments ([more information…
May, 2024.- The evaluation of a system that would allow extracting valuable information for hydrometeorological events from tweets generated by people in Chile: this is the first result of the collaboration between the Dirección Meteorológica de Chile (DMC) and the Innovation Department of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). In a meeting with…
Santiago, Chile. May, 2024.- In June 2024, the eyes of data science specialists worldwide will be on our country. Over six days of intensive work, the SIGMOD/PODS 2024 conference will take place in Santiago, where more than 800 scientists from universities, research centers, and companies in Chile and abroad will address —both theoretically and in…
May, 2024.- A proposal that combines the use of large language models with data graphs for clinical data: this is the innovation proposed in the article Augmented non-hallucinating large language models as medical information curators published in NPJ Digital Medicine, by researchers Stephen Gilbert and Jakob Nikolas Kather, from the Else Kröner Fresenius Center for…
April, 2024.- The data gap between men and women is the main topic of Invisible Women, the book by Caroline Criado Pérez that will be discussed in the second IMFD Book Club – ODEGI, which will be held online and will feature three sessions starting on Thursday, May 16. At each session, three chapters of…
April, 2024.- With more than 30 attendees, the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) launched the new Espacio IMFD, a series of activities combining research seminars, talks, panel discussions, and more. This series aims to promote the interdisciplinary research that characterizes IMFD and also to generate activities that support and encourage IMFD students to…
April, 2024.- Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge (TGDK) is a new journal that publishes peer-reviewed research on the use of graphs to represent data and knowledge, as well as the techniques, theories, applications and results that emerge in this environment. Created by Aidan Hogan, Universidad de Chile; Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford, U.K.; Lalana…
April, 2023.- China’s key investments in Chile: this is what the new interactive map allows you to checkRegional Repository of Chinese Investments in Latin America, a digital tool that compiles, in detail and with geographic references, the Asian country’s investments in Chile, Peru, and Argentina. The platform currently gathers information and location data on China’s…