Pierre Monnin

Current position

I am a researcher at Orange in Belfort (France). My research focuses on knowledge discovery, matching, mining, and usage in various downstream applications (e.g., recommender systems, explainable AI). I am particularly interested in interactions between domain knowledge represented in knowledge graphs and different forms of reasoning in a neurosymbolic perspective (e.g., benefits of injecting domain knowledge in Machine Learning models, analogical reasoning). My work involves both theoretical and applied perspectives, often in interdisciplinary settings (e.g., biomedical, educational domains). I am the Principal Investigator of the ECLADATTA project and Investigator of the AT2TA project (both funded by the French National Research Agency).

Previous positions

I was a PhD student at Université de Lorraine in the Orpailleur team of the LORIA laboratory, under the supervision of Amedeo Napoli and Adrien Coulet.
I defended my thesis, entitled Matching and mining in knowledge graphs of the Web of data - Applications in pharmacogenomics, on December 16, 2020.
My work was part of the PractiKPharma project, funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR).

Interests

Knowledge Discovery - Matching - Knowledge Graphs - Semantic Web - Linked Open Data

News

• March 2023: I was thrilled to give an invited talk entitled "Knowledge graph construction, refinement, and applications, with a neuro-symbolic perspective" at the WIMMICS seminar
• February 2023: I had the pleasure to give an invited talk entitled "Knowledge graphs: construction, refinement, and applications, with a neuro-symbolic perspective" at the Language & Cognition seminar of IDMC, Université de Lorraine
• January 2023: I had the pleasure to give an invited talk entitled "Knowledge graphs: construction, matching, and applications" at the CRIL seminar
• January 2023: YAGO4-LP, our link prediction datasets based on the YAGO4 knowledge graph are available on Zenodo
• November 2022: I have been invited to a panel discussion with Miguel Couceiro and Mathieu d'Aquin on the subject "From machine learning to knowledge and back: A (de)tour over reasoning, analogies and knowledge graphs" during the Cognitive Science and NLP forum of IDMC - Université de Lorraine
• October 2022: Our paper "From Tabular Data to Knowledge Graphs: A Survey of Semantic Table Interpretation Tasks and Methods" has been accepted in the Journal of Web Semantics
• October 2022: The proceedings of ISWC 2022 are available!
• October 2022: Our paper "Wikidata to Bootstrap an Enterprise Knowledge Graph: How to Stay on Topic?" with Lucas Jarnac has been accepted to the Wikidata 2022 workshop of ISWC 2022
• September 2022: Our paper "New Strategies for Learning Knowledge Graph Embeddings: the Recommendation Case" with Nicolas Hubert, Armelle Brun, and Davy Monticolo won the best paper award at EKAW 2022
• September 2022: Our paper "Knowledge Graph Embeddings for Link Prediction: Beware of Semantics!" with Nicolas Hubert, Armelle Brun, and Davy Monticolo has been accepted to the DL4KG 2022 workshop of ISWC 2022
• September 2022: Our paper "Matching Pharmacogenomic Knowledge: Particularities, Results, and Perspectives" with Adrien Coulet has been accepted to the OM 2022 workshop of ISWC 2022
• September 2022: I have given an invited talk entitled "Knowledge graphs: construction, matching, and mining" at JDSE 2022
• July 2022: Our two project proposals ECLADATTA and AT2TA have been accepted for funding by the French National Research Agency (ANR)
• July 2022: Our paper "Interactions Between Knowledge Graph-Related Tasks and Analogical Reasoning: A Discussion" with Miguel Couceiro has been accepted to the ATA 2022 workshop
• July 2022: Our paper "New Strategies for Learning Knowledge Graph Embeddings: the Recommendation Case" with Nicolas Hubert, Armelle Brun, and Davy Monticolo has been accepted to EKAW 2022
• July 2022: I have given an invited talk about my work "Matching and mining in knowledge graphs of the Web of data - Applications in pharmacogenomics" at the 4th GdR MaDICS symposium
• July 2022: Our paper "DAGOBAH: Annotation sémantique de données tabulaires par comparaison du contexte des tables et d'un graphe de connaissances" won the best paper award at IC 2022
• June 2022: I have given an invited talk about my work "Matching and mining in knowledge graphs of the Web of data - Applications in pharmacogenomics" at the DECADE workshop of PFIA 2022
• June 2022: Our poster "PGxCorpus and PGxLOD: two shared resources for knowledge management in pharmacogenomics" has been accepted to JOBIM 2022
• June 2022: I have been invited to present my career during the career day of TELECOM Nancy
• May 2022: Our paper "Combiner plongements de graphes et clustering pour l'alignement de connaissances pharmacogénomiques" with Chedy Raïssi, Amedeo Napoli and Adrien Coulet has been accepted to Santé & IA 2022
• May 2022: I have given an invited talk about our work "Discovering alignment relations with Graph Convolutional Networks: a biomedical case study" at the ROCED workshop of KGC 2022
• May 2022: Our popularization article "Étudier les mécanismes des effets indésirables des médicaments avec l’IA explicable : expériences avec la fouille de graphes de connaissances" has been published in the journal Bulletin de l'AFIA (Association Française pour l'Intelligence Artificielle)
• April 2022: Our article "DAGOBAH: Annotation sémantique de données tabulaires par comparaison du contexte des tables et d'un graphe de connaissances" has been accepted to IC 2022
• April 2022: Our demo "DAGOBAH UI: A New Hope for Semantic Table Interpretation" has been accepted to ESWC 2022
• April 2022: I have been invited to the Program Committee of the DL4KG workshop at ISWC 2022
• April 2022: Our popularization article "Projet ANR (2016-2021) "PractiKPharma" : extraction, comparaison et découverte de connaissances en pharmacogénomique" has been published in the journal 1024 - Bulletin de la SiF
• April 2022: Our demo "DAGOBAH UI: A New Hope For Semantic Table Interpretation" has been accepted at ESWC 2022
• April 2022: Our workshop Analogies: from Theory to Applications (ATA) has been accepted at ICCBR 2022
• March 2022: Our abstract for oral communication "Investigating ADR mechanisms with Explainable AI: a feasibility study with knowledge graph mining" has been accepted to JOBIM 2022
• February 2022: I have been invited as a member of the guest editorial board of the Special Issue on Tools & Systems of the Semantic Web Journal
• January 2022: I have been awarded the "best thesis award" by the French Association EGC ("Extraction et Gestion des connaissances" - Knowledge Extraction and Engineering). I have been invited to present my work at EGC 2022
• November 2021: Our paper Discovering alignment relations with Graph Convolutional Networks: a biomedical case study with Chedy Raïssi, Amedeo Napoli and Adrien Coulet has been accepted to the Special Issue on Deep Learning and Knowledge Graphs of the Semantic Web Journal
• October 2021: I will be Proceedings & Metadata co-chair of ISWC 2022 with Giuseppe Pirrò
• October 2021: We won the 1st prize (Accuracy Track) at the Semantic Web Challenge on Tabular Data to Knowledge Graph Matching 2021, co-located with the 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC’21)

Last update: March 26, 2023