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cs.CL2025

OpinioRAG: Towards Generating User-Centric Opinion Highlights from Large-scale Online Reviews

Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Davood Rafiei

We study the problem of opinion highlights generation from large volumes of user reviews, often exceeding thousands per entity, where existing methods either fail to scale or produ…

cs.CL2025

Do LLMs Align with My Task? Evaluating Text-to-SQL via Dataset Alignment

Davood Rafiei, Morgan Lindsay Heisler, Weiwei Zhang +2

Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) is an effective method for adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) on downstream tasks. However, variability in training data can hinder a model's abilit…

cs.CL2025

Rethinking Schema Linking: A Context-Aware Bidirectional Retrieval Approach for Text-to-SQL

Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid, Davood Rafiei, Weiwei Zhang +1

Schema linking -- the process of aligning natural language questions with database schema elements -- is a critical yet underexplored component of Text-to-SQL systems. While recent…

cs.CL2025

PRISM: Agentic Retrieval with LLMs for Multi-Hop Question Answering

Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid, Davood Rafiei

Retrieval plays a central role in multi-hop question answering (QA), where answering complex questions requires gathering multiple pieces of evidence. We propose PRISM, an agentic…

cs.CL2025

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

Tong Bao, Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Davood Rafiei +1

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…

cs.CL2025

LongRecall: A Structured Approach for Robust Recall Evaluation in Long-Form Text

MohamamdJavad Ardestani, Ehsan Kamalloo, Davood Rafiei

LongRecall. The completeness of machine-generated text, ensuring that it captures all relevant information, is crucial in domains such as medicine and law and in tasks like list-ba…

cs.CL2025

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

Sepideh Entezari Maleki, Mohammadreza Pourreza, Davood Rafiei

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 l…

cs.DB2025

SQL-Exchange: Transforming SQL Queries Across Domains

Mohammadreza Daviran, Brian Lin, Davood Rafiei

We introduce SQL-Exchange, a framework for mapping SQL queries across different database schemas by preserving the source query structure while adapting domain-specific elements to…

cs.DB2025

LDI: Localized Data Imputation for Text-Rich Tables

Soroush Omidvartehrani, Davood Rafiei

Missing values are pervasive in real-world tabular data and can significantly impair downstream analysis. Imputing them is especially challenging in text-rich tables, where depende…

cs.DB2025★ 1 cited

GXJoin: Generalized Cell Transformations for Explainable Joinability

Soroush Omidvartehrani, Arash Dargahi Nobari, Davood Rafiei

Describing real-world entities can vary across different sources, posing a challenge when integrating or exchanging data. We study the problem of joinability under syntactic transf…

cs.CL2025

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

Luis Antonio Gutiérrez Guanilo, Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Cristian López +1

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-spe…