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Davood Rafiei

10 accepted papers

2026

Confidence Estimation for Text-to-SQL in Large Language Models

AAAI 2026technical

Confidence estimation for text-to-SQL aims to assess the reliability of model-generated SQL queries without having access to gold answers. We study this problem in the context of large language models (LLMs), where access to model weights and gradients is often constrained. We explore both black-box

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2025

SurveyGen: Quality-Aware Scientific Survey Generation with Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Automatic survey generation has emerged as a key task in scientific document processing. While large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in generating survey texts, the lack of standardized evaluation datasets critically hampers rigorous assessment of their performance against human-written su

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2025

eC-Tab2Text: Aspect-Based Text Generation from e-Commerce Product Tables

NAACL 2025industry

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional versatility across diverse domains, yet their application in e-commerce remains underexplored due to a lack of domain-specific datasets. To address this gap, we introduce eC-Tab2Text, a novel dataset designed to capture the intricacies of e-…

2024

KidLM: Advancing Language Models for Children – Early Insights and Future Directions

EMNLP 2024main

Recent studies highlight the potential of large language models in creating educational tools for children, yet significant challenges remain in maintaining key child-specific properties such as linguistic nuances, cognitive needs, and safety standards. In this paper, we explore foundational steps t…

2024

NormTab: Improving Symbolic Reasoning in LLMs Through Tabular Data Normalization

EMNLP 2024finding

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in parsing textual data and generating code. However, their performance in tasks involving tabular data, especially those requiring symbolic reasoning, faces challenges due to the structural variance and inconsis…

2024

TabSQLify: Enhancing Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs Through Table Decomposition

NAACL 2024long

Table reasoning is a challenging task that requires understanding both natural language questions and structured tabular data. Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in natural language understanding and generation, but they often struggle with large tables due to their limi…

2023

DIN-SQL: Decomposed In-Context Learning of Text-to-SQL with Self-Correction

NeurIPS 2023poster

There is currently a significant gap between the performance of fine-tuned models and prompting approaches using Large Language Models (LLMs) on the challenging task of text-to-SQL, as evaluated on datasets such as Spider. To improve the performance of LLMs in the reasoning process, we study how dec…

2023

Evaluating Open-Domain Question Answering in the Era of Large Language Models

ACL 2023long

Lexical matching remains the de facto evaluation method for open-domain question answering (QA). Unfortunately, lexical matching fails completely when a plausible candidate answer does not appear in the list of gold answers, which is increasingly the case as we shift from extractive to generative mo…