Research behind maqui.ai will reach the Industry Track of ISWC, the leading global conference on semantic web and knowledge graphs

The paper presents the technological architecture behind maqui.ai, the legal platform developed by the Innovation and Technology Transfer team of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). The team will present the work during the conference, to be held in Italy, positioning it among the most relevant applications of 2026 in knowledge graph-based technologies.

The research that gave rise to maqui.ai, the legal platform developed by the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and launched to the public in November 2025, was accepted into the Industry Track of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2026, the leading international forum dedicated to the semantic web and knowledge graphs.

The Industry Track brings together applications that carry scientific research through to real-world problems, and its selection process undergoes a rigorous peer-review evaluation. In this case, the IMFD team’s work presents maqui.ai, a platform that facilitates queries into the Chilean legal system, connecting laws, regulations, rulings, judicial decisions, and other sources through regulatory graphs. This makes it possible to navigate large volumes of legal information more quickly and efficiently.

How does maqui.ai work?

The platform organizes laws, regulations, rulings, court judgments, and other sources through regulatory graphs, structures that represent the relationships between these documents. Building on this foundation, it incorporates a GraphRAG strategy, which combines graph navigation with semantic search to deliver more precise answers and reduce common errors made by language models.

The platform is currently used by architects, real estate developers, and local government offices, and recently launched a connector (MCP) allowing users to access maqui.ai from ChatGPT and Claude.

For Hernán Sarmiento, Director of Innovation at IMFD and CEO of maqui.ai, this recognition reflects one of the goals that gave rise to the institute: transferring knowledge and research into real-world solutions:

“For the IMFD, this confirms something we have pursued since the institute’s very design: that frontier research in graphs, databases, and language models can become a tangible product, with real users, solving a concrete national problem such as access to legal information.”

Sarmiento adds that the acceptance of the paper also represents a milestone for the platform’s development:

“For maqui.ai, this publication comes at a key moment, since having academic credentials validated by the international scientific community provides strong support for preparing funding rounds, demonstrating that our platform meets high development standards.”

In addition to its presentation at ISWC 2026, the work will give international visibility to a technology developed in Chile before researchers, companies, and investors working with knowledge graphs and artificial intelligence.

ISWC 2026 will be held in Bari, Italy, from October 25 to 29, 2026, where Industry Track papers will be presented as talks during the conference. “The maqui.ai team already has an oral presentation planned featuring a real-world case, also explaining the scientific-technological progress made over the past year,” Sarmiento adds.