Francisco Cifuentes-Silva

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Biography

I'm head of research projects in the Library of National Congress of Chile (BCN), member of WESO Research Group of the University of Oviedo, and PhD in Computer Science in the same university, focusing my research in political and legislative analysis using "Semantic Technologies", which I define as the union of three fields of computer sience: Semantic Web, Text Mining and Social Network Analysis.

I born in Puente Alto, Santiago de Chile, the most populated commune in the country. In 2006 I've got a computer science degree and engineering in the Universidad of La Frontera and then, since 2009 to 2011 I've done the Master in Web Engineering of the University of Oviedo, due I've granted a scholarship by the Fundación Carolina.

My Master and PhD thesis was adviced by Jose Emilio Labra Gayo developing among others, the first Chilean Linked Open Data portal datos.bcn.cl. Since then, I work at BCN in Semantic Web and innovation projects.

Currently I live at Viña del Mar, one of the more beautiful cities in Chile, with my wife and my daughters.

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Publications

• Transforming parliamentary libraries: Enhancing processes delivering new services with artificial intelligence, Francisco Cifuentes-Silva, Hernán Astudillo & Jose Emilio Labra-Gayo

  IFLA Journal - Sage Journals (JCR Impact Factor 1.0) 2025 BibTex Preprint PDF

• Toward Efficient Legislative Processes: Analysis of Chilean Congressional Bill Votes Using Semantic Web Technologies , Francisco Cifuentes-Silva, Hernán Astudillo & Jose Emilio Labra-Gayo, Felipe Rivera-Polo

  SN Computer Science - Springer link 2024 BibTex PDF

• Using Polarization and Alignment to Identify Quick-Approval Law Propositions: An Open Linked Data Application , Francisco Cifuentes-Silva, Jose Emilio Labra-Gayo, Hernán Astudillo & Felipe Rivera-Polo

  International Conference on Applied Informatics - ICAI 2023 BibTex

• National Budget as Linked Open Data: New Tools for Supporting the Sustainability of Public Finances, Francisco Cifuentes-Silva, Daniel Fernández-Álvarez, Jose Emilio Labra-Gayo

  Sustainability (JCR Impact Factor 2.592), Vol 12(11), 4551 - 2020 BibTex PDF

• Legislative Document Content Extraction Based on Semantic Web Technologies A Use Case About Processing the History of the Law , Francisco Cifuentes-Silva, Jose Emilio Labra-Gayo

  Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2019), LNCS, volume 11503, 2019 BibTex PDF (preprint)

• Conceptual distinctions for traceability of history of law , Ricardo Gacitúa, Victor Aravena-Diaz, Carlos Cares, Francisco Cifuentes-Silva

  11th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2016 BibTex PDF (preprint)

• Service-Oriented Architecture for automatic markup of documents. An use case for legal documents , Francisco Cifuentes-Silva

  Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2014 - Lyon - Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge in Session 121 - Law Libraries with Parliamentary Libraries, Information Technology and Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE). In: IFLA WLIC 2014, 16-22 August 2014, Lyon, France. 2014 BibTex PDF

• Towards a pan-european e-procurement platform to aggregate, publish and search public procurement notices powered by Linked Open Data: the MOLDEAS approach , Jose Maria Alvarez, Jose Emilio Labra-Gayo, Francisco Cifuentes-Silva, Giner Alor-Hernandez, Cuauhtemoc Sánchez, Jaime Alberto Guzmán Luna

  International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (JCR Impact Factor 0.397) Vol. 22, No. 03, pp. 365-383 2012 BibTex PDF

• Publicación de datos abiertos enlazados en el ámbito legislativo Francisco Cifuentes-Silva

  Trabajo de fin de máster, Máster Oficial en Ingeniería Web, Universidad de Oviedo 2011 BibTex PDF

• Towards an architecture and adoption process for linked data technologies in open government contexts: a case study for the library of congress of chile Francisco Cifuentes-Silva, Christian Sifaqui, Jose Emilio Labra-Gayo

  Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Semantic Systems (ISEMANTICS2011), 79-86 2011 BibTex PDF

• Usability Report. A face recognition based game for users with disabilities. Francisco Cifuentes-Silva

  e-Minds 2 (7)2011 BibTex PDF (preprint)