2025
Identifying Key Roles In Politics Using Semantic Technologies
51a Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática (CLEI), 2025.
Computer Science · Research · Public Sector Innovation
Francisco
Francisco
Cifuentes-Silva
Head of Research Projects at the Library of the National Congress of Chile and PhD in Computer Science (Cum Laude). My work connects Semantic Web, Text Mining and Social Network Analysis to build better tools for political and legislative analysis.
Profile
About
A career at the intersection of computer science, public information, semantic technologies and innovation in the legislative domain.
I am Head of Research Projects at the Library of the National Congress of Chile (BCN), PhD in Computer Science (Cum Laude) from the University of Oviedo, and a member of the WESO Research Group.
My research focuses on political and legislative analysis through what I call Semantic Technologies: the convergence of Semantic Web, Text Mining and Social Network Analysis.
I was born in Puente Alto, Santiago de Chile. In 2006 I obtained my Computer Science and Engineering degree from the Universidad de La Frontera. From 2009 to 2011 I completed the Master in Web Engineering at the University of Oviedo with a Fundación Carolina scholarship.
My Master's and PhD theses were supervised by Jose Emilio Labra Gayo. Among other projects, I contributed to the development of the first Chilean Linked Open Data portal, datos.bcn.cl. Since then, I have worked at BCN on Semantic Web, artificial intelligence and innovation projects.
I currently live in Viña del Mar, Chile, with my wife and daughters.
Current
Head of Research Projects · BCN
Research, Semantic Web, AI and innovation in political-legislative information services.
2025
PhD in Computer Science · University of Oviedo
Doctoral research on Semantic Technologies in the political-legislative domain.
2009–2011
Master in Web Engineering · University of Oviedo
Fundación Carolina scholarship.
2006
Computer Science & Engineering · Universidad de La Frontera
Temuco, Chile.
Research output
Publications
Selected research on Semantic Web technologies, legislative informatics, artificial intelligence, Linked Open Data and political analysis.
2025
Tecnologías Semánticas en el ámbito Político-Legislativo
Doctoral Thesis, University of Oviedo, 2025.
2025
Transforming parliamentary libraries: Enhancing processes delivering new services with artificial intelligence
IFLA Journal · Sage Journals, 2025.
2024
Toward Efficient Legislative Processes: Analysis of Chilean Congressional Bill Votes Using Semantic Web Technologies
SN Computer Science · Springer, 2024.
2023
Using Polarization and Alignment to Identify Quick-Approval Law Propositions: An Open Linked Data Application
International Conference on Applied Informatics (ICAI), 2023.
2020
National Budget as Linked Open Data: New Tools for Supporting the Sustainability of Public Finances
Sustainability, Vol. 12(11), 4551, 2020.
2019
Legislative Document Content Extraction Based on Semantic Web Technologies: A Use Case About Processing the History of the Law
Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2019), LNCS 11503.
2016
Conceptual distinctions for traceability of history of law
11th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2016.
2014
Service-Oriented Architecture for automatic markup of documents. An use case for legal documents
IFLA WLIC 2014 · Lyon, France.
2012
Towards a pan-European e-procurement platform to aggregate, publish and search public procurement notices powered by Linked Open Data: the MOLDEAS approach
International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 22, No. 03, pp. 365–383, 2012.
2011
Publicación de datos abiertos enlazados en el ámbito legislativo
Master's Thesis, Master in Web Engineering, University of Oviedo, 2011.
2011
Towards an architecture and adoption process for linked data technologies in open government contexts: a case study for the Library of Congress of Chile
7th International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-SEMANTICS 2011), pp. 79–86.
2011
Usability Report. A face recognition based game for users with disabilities
e-Minds 2(7), 2011.
Contact
Research, semantic technologies and public-sector innovation.
For academic, professional or research-related contact, use the contact page. You can also explore my personal blog for notes and topics beyond my formal research work.