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Armineh Nourbakhsh

8 accepted papers

2025

CoCoLex: Confidence-guided Copy-based Decoding for Grounded Legal Text Generation

ACL 2025long

Due to their ability to process long and complex contexts, LLMs can offer key benefits to the Legal domain, but their adoption has been hindered by their tendency to generate unfaithful, ungrounded, or hallucinatory outputs. While Retrieval-Augmented Generation offers a promising solution by groundi…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Where is this coming from? Making groundedness count in the evaluation of Document VQA models

NAACL 2025findings

Document Visual Question Answering (VQA) models have evolved at an impressive rate over the past few years, coming close to or matching human performance on some benchmarks. We argue that common evaluation metrics used by popular benchmarks do not account for the semantic and multimodal groundedness…

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2024

AliGATr: Graph-based layout generation for form understanding

EMNLP 2024finding

Forms constitute a large portion of layout-rich documents that convey information through key-value pairs. Form understanding involves two main tasks, namely, the identification of keys and values (a.k.a Key Information Extraction or KIE) and the association of keys to corresponding values (a.k.a. R…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

DocLLM: A Layout-Aware Generative Language Model for Multimodal Document Understanding

ACL 2024long

Enterprise documents such as forms, receipts, reports, and other such records, often carry rich semantics at the intersection of textual and spatial modalities. The visual cues offered by their complex layouts play a crucial role in comprehending these documents effectively. In this paper, we presen…

2024

Towards a new research agenda for multimodal enterprise document understanding: What are we missing?

ACL 2024findings

The field of multimodal document understanding has produced a suite of models that have achieved stellar performance across several tasks, even coming close to human performance on certain benchmarks. Nevertheless, the application of these models to real-world enterprise datasets remains constrained…

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2024

“What is the value of templates?” Rethinking Document Information Extraction Datasets for LLMs

EMNLP 2024finding

The rise of large language models (LLMs) for visually rich document understanding (VRDU) has kindled a need for prompt-response, document-based datasets. As annotating new datasets from scratch is labor-intensive, the existing literature has generated prompt-response datasets from available resource…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2023

Using counterfactual contrast to improve compositional generalization for multi-step quantitative reasoning

ACL 2023long

In quantitative question answering, compositional generalization is one of the main challenges of state of the art models, especially when longer sequences of reasoning steps are required. In this paper we propose CounterComp, a method that uses counterfactual scenarios to generate samples with comp…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2022

Improving compositional generalization for multi-step quantitative reasoning in question answering

EMNLP 2022main

Quantitative reasoning is an important aspect of question answering, especially when numeric and verbal cues interact to indicate sophisticated, multi-step programs. In this paper, we demonstrate how modeling the compositional nature of quantitative text can enhance the performance and robustness of…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar