Thomas Pellissier Tanon
Software Engineer. PhD.
About
I am a software engineer with a strong research background. I am mainly focusing on data management, databases, and NLP.
I created Oxigraph, a graph database written in Rust and based on the RocksDB key-value store. It focuses on the single-node use case and fully implements the SPARQL language. It is still a work in progress but now provides competitive performances on simple OLTP workloads.
I am also a long-term technical contributor to the Wikimedia projects Wikisource, Wikidata, and Wikipedia. For example, I maintain the ProofreadPage MediaWiki extension that powers the main Wikisource editing workflow. I also created tools to help contribution and data reuse like the Wikisource ePub export tool or the "History Query Service" for Wikidata.
On the research side, I worked on projects related to automated inference on top of databases using both symbolic [1, 2] and neural-network-based [3] methods, data querying [4, 5] and integration [6, 7], and natural language question answering [8].
My email address is thomas@pellissier-tanon.fr
. Feel free to reach out. I am open to small or medium freelance projects.
Academic Publications
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Neural Knowledge Base Repairs
Thomas Pellissier Tanon and Fabian Suchanek, ESWC 2021.
Won the best paper award. -
YAGO 4: A Reason-able Knowledge Base
Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Gerhard Weikum and Fabian Suchanek, ESWC 2020.
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Learning How to Correct a Knowledge Base from the Edit History
Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Camille Bourgaux and Fabian Suchanek, The Web Conference 2019.
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Querying the Edit History of Wikidata
Thomas Pellissier Tanon and Fabian Suchanek, ESWC 2019 demo session.
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Bash Datalog: Answering Datalog Queries with Unix Shell Commands
Thomas Rebele, Thomas Pellissier Tanon and Fabian Suchanek, ISWC 2018.
Spotlight paper. -
Completeness-aware Rule Learning from Knowledge Graphs
Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Daria Stepanova, Simon Razniewski, Paramita Mirza and Gerhard Weikum, IJCAI 2018.
Short version of the ISWC paper for the Sister Conference Best Paper track. -
Demoing Platypus – A Multilingual Question Answering Platform for Wikidata
Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Marcos Dias de Assunção, Eddy Caron and Fabian Suchanek, ESWC 2018 demo session.
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Property Label Stability in Wikidata
Thomas Pellissier Tanon and Lucie-Aimée Kaffe, WikiWorkshop 2018.
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A Knowledge Base for Personal Information Management
David Montoya, Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Serge Abiteboul, Pierre Senellart and Fabian Suchanek, LDOW 2018.
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Completeness-aware Rule Learning from Knowledge Graphs
Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Daria Stepanova, Simon Razniewski, Paramita Mirza and Gerhard Weikum, ISWC 2017.
Nominated for the best student paper award. -
Question Answering Benchmarks for Wikidata
Dennis Diefenbach, Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Kamal Singh and Pierre Maret, ISWC 2017 poster session.
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Thymeflow, a personal knowledge base with spatio-temporal data
David Montoya, Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Serge Abiteboul and Fabian Suchanek, CIKM 2016 demo session.
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From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration
Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Denny Vrandečić, Sebastian Schaffert, Thomas Steiner and Lydia Pintscher, WWW 2016.