Davood Rafiei's Refereed Publications:

See also the dblp page for a more up-to-date list.

• Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Davood Rafiei, KidLM: Advancing language models for children -- early insights and future directions , EMNLP 2024 (to appear).

• Mahadi Hasan Nahid, Davood Rafiei, NormTab: Improving symbolic reasoning in LLMs through tabular data normalization (code), EMNLP (Findings) 2024 (to appear).

• Mohammadreza Pourreza, Davood Rafiei, DTS-SQL: Decomposed text-to-SQL with small large language models (code), EMNLP (Findings) 2024 (to appear).

• Soroush Omidvartehrani, Arash Dargahi Nobari, Davood Rafiei, GXJoin: Generalized cell transformations for explainable joinability, ADBIS 2024.

• Mahadi Hasan Nahid, Davood Rafiei, TabSQLify: Enhancing reasoning capabilities of LLMs through table decomposition (code), NAACL 2024.

• Arash Dargahi Nobari, Davood Rafiei, DTT: An example-driven tabular transformer by leveraging large language models (code), SIGMOD 2024.

• Mohammadreza Pourreza, Davood Rafiei, DIN-SQL: Decomposed in-context learning of text-to-SQL with self-correction (code), NeurIPS 2023.

• Mohammadreza Pourreza, Davood Rafiei, Evaluating cross-domain text-to-SQL models and benchmarks (code), EMNLP 2023.

• Yuchen Su, Davood Rafiei, Behrad Khorram Nazari, SAND: Semantic annotation of numeric data in web tables (code), CIKM 2023.

• Ali Naeim Abadi, Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Davood Rafiei, Product entity matching via tabular data, CIKM 2023.

• Hamed Mirzaei, Davood Rafiei, Table union search with preferences, TaDA @ VLDB 2023.

• Ehsan Kamalloo, Nouha Dziri, Charles Clarke, Davood Rafiei, Evaluating open-domain question answering in the era of large language models, ACL 2023.

• Ehsan Kamalloo, Charles Clarke, Davood Rafiei, Limitations of open-domain question answering benchmarks for document-level reasoning, SIGIR 2023.

• Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Davood Rafiei, On the role of reviewer expertise in temporal review helpfulness prediction, EACL (Findings) 2023.

• Arif Hasnat, Davood Rafiei, Interactive set discovery, EDBT 2023.

• Mehdi Akabarian Rastaghi, Ehsan Kamalloo, Davood Rafiei, Probing the robustness of pre-trained language models for entity matching, CIKM 2022.

• Mostafa Yadegari, Ehsan Kamalloo, Davood Rafiei, Detecting frozen phrases in open-domain question answering, SIGIR 2022.

• Arash Dargahi Nobari, Davood Rafiei, Efficiently transforming tables for joinability (code), ICDE 2022.

• Davood Rafiei, Harrison Fah, Thomas Lafrance, Arash Dargahi Nobari, BareTQL: An interactive system for searching and extraction of open data tables (demo) (code), IUI 2022.

• Maithrreye Srinivasan, Davood Rafiei, Location-aware named entity disambiguation, CIKM 2021.

• Davood Rafiei, Fan Deng, Similarity join and similarity self-join size estimation in a streaming environment, TKDE 2020.

• Ehsan Kamalloo, Davood Rafiei, A coherent unsupervised model for toponym resolution, Proc. of the WWW Conference, 2018.

• Sanket Kumar, Davood Rafiei, Strategies for geographical scoping and improving a gazetteer, Proc. of the WWW Conference, 2018.

• Muhammad Waqar, Davood Rafiei, Characterizing users and tracking their activities in online classified ads, Int. Journal of AI Tools, 2017.

• Jiangwei Yu, Davood Rafiei, Geotagging named entities in news and online documents, Proc. of the CIKM Conference, 2016 (the dataset is here).

• Muhammad Waqar, Davood Rafiei, Tracking user activities and marketplace dynamics in classified ads, Proc. of the Web Intelligence Conference, 2016.

• Reza Sadoddin, Joerg Sander, Davood Rafiei, Finding surprisingly frequent patterns of variable lengths in sequence data, Proc. of the SDM Conference, 2016.

• Muhammad Waqar, Davood Rafiei, Characterizing users in an online classified ad network, Proc. of the WIMS Conference, 2016.

• Saeed Mohajeri, Hamman Samuel, Osmar Zaiane, Davood Rafiei, BubbleNet: an innovative exploratory search and summarization interface with applicability in health social media, Proc. of the ICDEc Conference, 8 pages, 2016.

• Hongya Wang, Jiao Cao, LihChyun Shu, Davood Rafiei, Locality sensitive hashing revisited: filling the gap between theory and algorithm analysis, Proc. of the CIKM Conference, 2013.

• Aibek Makazhanov, Davood Rafiei, Predicting Political Preference of Twitter Users, Proc. of ASONAM Conference, 2013 (here is an extended version that covers both Alberta election 2012 and Pakistan election 2013).

• Pirooz Chubak, Davood Rafiei, Efficient Indexing and Querying over Syntactically Annotated Trees, PVLDB, 5(11), 2012.

• Chaman Thapa, Osmar Zaiane, Davood Rafiei, Arya Shrama, Classifying Websites into Non-topical Categories, Proc. of DAWAK Conference, 2012.

• Hoda Sepehri Rad, Aibek Makazhanov, Davood Rafiei, Denilson Barbosa, Leveraging Editor Collaboration Patterns in Wikipedia, Proc. of Hypertext and Social Media, 2012.

• Pirooz Chubak, Davood Rafiei, Index Structures for Efficiently Searching Natural Language Text, Proc. of the CIKM Conference, 2010.

• Davood Rafiei, Krishna Bharat, Anand Shukla, Diversifying Web Search Results, Proc. of the WWW Conference, 2010.

• Davood Rafiei, Haobin Li, Data Extraction from the Web Using Wild Card Queries, Proc. of the CIKM Conference, 2009 (here is the full paper with more details).

• Christopher Pinchak, Davood Rafiei, Dekang Lin, Answer Typing for Information Retrieval, Proc. of the CIKM Conference, 2009.

• Christopher Pinchak, Dekang Lin, Davood Rafiei, Flexible Answer Typing with Discriminative Preference Ranking, Proc. of the EACL Conference, 2009.

• Reza Sherkat, Davood Rafiei, On Efficiently Searching Trajectories and Archival Data for Historical Similarities, Proc. of the VLDB Conference, 2008.

• Reza Sherkat, Davood Rafiei, On MBR Approximation of Histories for Historical Queries: Expectations and Limitations, Proc. of the ICDE Conference, 2007.

• Davood Rafiei, Cheng Hu, Bulk Loading a Linear Hash File, Proc. of the DaWak Conference, 2006.

• Davood Rafiei, Daniel Moise, Dabo Sun, Finding Syntactic Similarities between XML Documents, Proc. of the XANTEC Workshop (in conjunction with DEXA and DaWak) , 2006. (here are the slides)

• Fan Deng, Davood Rafiei, Approximately Detecting Duplicates for Streaming Data using Stable Bloom Filters, Proc. of the SIGMOD Conference , 2006 (here is the extended version; it has some of the proofs missing from the original paper due to space limitations).

• Reza Sherkat, Davood Rafiei, Efficiently Evaluating Order Preserving Similarity Queries Over Historical Market-Basket Data, Proc. of the ICDE Conference, 2006.

• Davood Rafiei, Stephen Curial, Effectively Visualizing Large Networks Through Sampling, Proc. of the IEEE Visualization Conference, 2005.

• Davood Rafiei, Bulk Loading Large Collections of Hyperlinked Resources, Proc. of the ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia , 2005.

• Davood Rafiei, Stephen Curial, ALVIN: A System for Visualizing Large Networks, Poster Proc. of WWW 2005.

• Gabriela Moise, Joerg Sander, Davood Rafiei, Focused Co-citation: Improving the Retrieval of Related Pages on the Web, Poster Proc. of WWW 2003.

• Davood Rafiei, Alberto Mendelzon, Efficient Retrieval of Similar Shapes, VLDB Journal, 11(1): 17-27, August 2002 (ps).

• Alberto Mendelzon, Davood Rafiei An Autonomous Page Ranking Method for Metasearch Engines, Poster Proc. of WWW 2002.

• Alberto Mendelzon, Davood Rafiei What do the Neighbours Think? Computing Web Page Reputations IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 23(3): 9-16, September 2000 (ps).

• Davood Rafiei, Alberto Mendelzon, Querying Time Series Data Based on Similarity, IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 12(5): 675-693, September/October 2000 (ps).

• Davood Rafiei, Alberto Mendelzon, What is this Page Known for? Computing Web Page Reputations, Proc. WWW9 Conference, Amsterdam, May 2000 (ps) (also published in Computer Networks 33 (2000):823-835)

• Davood Rafiei, On Similarity-Based Queries for Time Series Data Proc. IEEE Data Engineering Conference, Sydney, Australia, March 1999. (ps)

• Davood Rafiei, Alberto Mendelzon, Efficient Retrieval of Similar Time Sequences Using DFT, Proc. FODO Conference, Kobe, Japan, November 1998. ( a newer version to be published as a book chapter which turns out to be easier to print)

• Davood Rafiei, Alberto Mendelzon, Similarity-Based Queries for Time Series Data, Proc. ACM SIGMOD Conference, Tucson, Arizona, May 1997 (ps).