DCC UC academics and IMFD researchers, Hans Löbel and Denis Parra, traveled to Vienna, Austria, together with DCC UC academics Rodrigo Toro and Alvaro Soto to the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), the main meeting of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence known as machine learning. ...
How to put the most advanced data science techniques at the service of the People : this is the objective of the IMFD's Innovation area, which in collaboration with the Superintendence of Social Security (SUSESO), is working on the project "Natural Language Processing for Claims Entry Optimization". The SUSESO...
Three IMFD papers are highlighted in the recent edition of Communications of the ACM: Latin American Regional Special Section. The special, coordinated by Fabio Kon (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sebastian Uchitel (University of Buenos Aires), and IMFD researcher and DCC UCH academic Barbara Poblete, seeks to present the most interesting advances...
The Master student thesis work "Trie-compressed Intersectable Sets" by Juan Pablo Castillo, UC doctoral student, IMFD and former UTFSM Master student , is a finalist in the Latin American Master Thesis Competition of the CLEI 2024 conference, which seeks to reward and disseminate the work of Latin American students who have recently completed...
Languages are the heart and soul of cultural identity and communication, and nowhere is this more evident than in the vibrant scene of Latin America and the Caribbean: with this in mind, the 2024th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Latin American and Caribbean...
Harnessing the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) to manage, analyze and interpret historical archives from the era of the Chilean dictatorship (1973-1990): this is the objective of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data's Nuestra MemorIA Project, led by Jocelyn Dunstan Escudero, DCC and IMC UC academic; Juan Reutter, DCC and IMC UC academic; Juan ...
On July 19, 2024, Aidan Hogan, alternate director of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data and member of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chile, took over as the new director of the DCC U. Chile, a task that will last for a period of two years. For his part,...
Three IMFD papers are highlighted in the recent edition of Communications of the ACM: Latin American Regional Special Section. The special, coordinated by Fabio Kon (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sebastian Uchitel (University of Buenos Aires), and IMFD researcher and DCC UCH academic Barbara Poblete, seeks to present the most interesting advances...
How gendered stereotypes and body image concerns manifest themselves in online diet and fitness forums: this is what the research "Feelings about Bodies: Emotions on Diet and Fitness Forums Reveal Gendered Stereotypes and Body Image Concerns", in which PhD student from the Department of Biomedical Sciences participated, is about...
The 74th annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) was held in Gold Coast, Australia, from June 20 to 24, with the participation of Magdalena Saldaña and Sebastián Valenzuela, both IMFD researchers and academics from the School of Communications of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile....
A group of four students, led by Marcelo Mendoza, DCC UC academic and IMFD and Cenia researcher, won the first place in DIPROMATS 2024, the NLP challenge on hype and narrative detection of the Iberian Forum for Language Assessment 2024. The team, integrated by Miguel Fernández (IMFD and PhD DCC UC),...
An algorithm to estimate the centrality of nodes in a network, which is competitive in accuracy with machine learning methods, is the innovative proposal that researchers Francisco Plana, PhD in Computer Science from the University of Chile, Andrés Abeliuk, academic of the DCC U. Chile and IMFD Collaborator and Jorge Pérez, ex...
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. The aim is to...
"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 alternate director) and Gonzalo Navarro, from Computer Science at the U. de Chile; Diego Arroyuelo and IMFD director Juan Reutter, from Computer Science at the U.....
From June 9 to 14, one of the most influential international data science conferences will be held in Chile: SIGMOD/PODS 2024. At this meeting, which for the first time is being held in Latin America, researchers from the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) will present their work,...