| 2026 | AAAI | Confidence Estimation for Text-to-SQL in Large Language Models. | Sepideh Entezari Maleki, Mohammadreza Pourreza, Davood Rafiei |
| 2026 | EACL | Rethinking Schema Linking: A Context-Aware Bidirectional Retrieval Approach for Text-to-SQL. | Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid, Davood Rafiei, Weiwei Zhang, Yong Zhang |
| 2026 | ICDE | How Far Can They Map? Probing LLM Capabilities for Cross-Schema SQL Generation. | Mohammadreza Daviran, Davood Rafiei |
| 2025 | EMNLP | SurveyGen: Quality-Aware Scientific Survey Generation with Large Language Models. | Tong Bao, Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Davood Rafiei, Chengzhi Zhang |
| 2025 | NAACL | eC-Tab2Text: Aspect-Based Text Generation from e-Commerce Product Tables. | Luis Antonio Gutirrez Guanilo, Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Cristian Lpez, Davood Rafiei |
| 2025 | WWW | Evaluating Column Type Annotation Models and Benchmarks. | Amir Babamahmoudi, Davood Rafiei, Mario A. Nascimento |
| 2025 | WWW | MixedSAND: Semantic Annotation of Mixed-unit Numeric Data. | Amir Behrad Khorram Nazari, Davood Rafiei, Mario A. Nascimento |
| 2025 | WWW | WebTableX: Efficiently Discovering Web Table Transformations Through Sampling. | Soroush Omidvartehrani, Arash Dargahi Nobari, Davood Rafiei |
| 2025 | VLDB | Improving Column Type Annotation Using Large Language Models. | Amir Babamahmoudi, Davood Rafiei, Mario A. Nascimento |
| 2024 | ADBIS | GXJoin: Generalized Cell Transformations for Explainable Joinability. | Soroush Omidvartehrani, Arash Dargahi Nobari, Davood Rafiei |
| 2024 | EMNLP | NormTab: Improving Symbolic Reasoning in LLMs Through Tabular Data Normalization. | Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid, Davood Rafiei |
| 2024 | EMNLP | KidLM: Advancing Language Models for Children - Early Insights and Future Directions. | Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Davood Rafiei |
| 2024 | EMNLP | DTS-SQL: Decomposed Text-to-SQL with Small Large Language Models. | Mohammadreza Pourreza, Davood Rafiei |
| 2024 | NAACL | TabSQLify: Enhancing Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs Through Table Decomposition. | Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid, Davood Rafiei |
| 2023 | ACL | Evaluating Open-Domain Question Answering in the Era of Large Language Models. | Ehsan Kamalloo, Nouha Dziri, Charles L. A. Clarke, Davood Rafiei |
| 2023 | CIKM | Product Entity Matching via Tabular Data. | Ali Naeim abadi, Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Davood Rafiei |
| 2023 | CIKM | SAND: Semantic Annotation of Numeric Data in Web Tables. | Yuchen Su, Davood Rafiei, Behrad Khorram Nazari |
| 2023 | EACL | On the Role of Reviewer Expertise in Temporal Review Helpfulness Prediction. | Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Davood Rafiei |
| 2023 | EDBT | Interactive Set Discovery. | Arif Hasnat, Davood Rafiei |
| 2023 | EMNLP | Evaluating Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL Models and Benchmarks. | Mohammadreza Pourreza, Davood Rafiei |
| 2023 | SIGIR | Limitations of Open-Domain Question Answering Benchmarks for Document-level Reasoning. | Ehsan Kamalloo, Charles L. A. Clarke, Davood Rafiei |
| 2023 | VLDB | Table Union Search with Preferences. | Hamed Mirzaei, Davood Rafiei |
| 2023 | VLDB | Discovering and Integrating Tabular Data. | Davood Rafiei, Arash Dargahi Nobari, Soroush Omidvartehrani |
| 2022 | CIKM | Probing the Robustness of Pre-trained Language Models for Entity Matching. | Mehdi Akbarian Rastaghi, Ehsan Kamalloo, Davood Rafiei |
| 2022 | ICDE | Efficiently Transforming Tables for Joinability. | Arash Dargahi Nobari, Davood Rafiei |
| 2022 | IUI | BareTQL: An Interactive System for Searching and Extraction of Open Data Tables. | Davood Rafiei, Harrison Fah, Thomas Lafrance, Arash Dargahi Nobari |
| 2022 | SIGIR | Detecting Frozen Phrases in Open-Domain Question Answering. | Mostafa Yadegari, Ehsan Kamalloo, Davood Rafiei |
| 2021 | CIKM | Location-Aware Named Entity Disambiguation. | Maithrreye Srinivasan, Davood Rafiei |
| 2019 | ICDE | Top-K Frequent Term Queries on Streaming Data. | Sara Farazi, Davood Rafiei |
| 2018 | WWW | A Coherent Unsupervised Model for Toponym Resolution. | Ehsan Kamalloo, Davood Rafiei |
| 2018 | WWW | The Shifting Landscape of Web Search and Mining: Past, Present, and Future. | Davood Rafiei, Eugene Agichtein, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Jon M. Kleinberg, Jure Leskovec |
| 2018 | WWW | Strategies for Geographical Scoping and Improving a Gazetteer. | Sanket Kumar Singh, Davood Rafiei |
| 2017 | SIGMOD | Natural Language Data Management and Interfaces: Recent Development and Open Challenges. | Yunyao Li, Davood Rafiei |
| 2016 | CIKM | Geotagging Named Entities in News and Online Documents. | Jiangwei Yu Rafiei, Davood Rafiei |
| 2016 | SDM | Finding Surprisingly Frequent Patterns of Variable Lengths in Sequence Data. | Reza Sadoddin, Jrg Sander, Davood Rafiei |
| 2015 | CIKM | NWSearch 2015: International Workshop on Novel Web Search Interfaces and Systems. | Davood Rafiei, Katsumi Tanaka |
| 2013 | CIKM | Locality sensitive hashing revisited: filling the gap between theory and algorithm analysis. | Hongya Wang, Jiao Cao, LihChyun Shu, Davood Rafiei |
| 2012 | DaWaK | Classifying Websites into Non-topical Categories. | Chaman Thapa, Osmar R. Zaane, Davood Rafiei, Arya M. Sharma |
| 2010 | CIKM | Index structures for efficiently searching natural language text. | Pirooz Chubak, Davood Rafiei |
| 2010 | WWW | Diversifying web search results. | Davood Rafiei, Krishna Bharat, Anand Shukla |
| 2009 | CIKM | Answer typing for information retrieval. | Christopher Pinchak, Davood Rafiei, Dekang Lin |
| 2009 | CIKM | Information extraction meets relation databases. | Davood Rafiei, Andrei Z. Broder, Edward Y. Chang, Patrick Pantel |
| 2009 | CIKM | Data extraction from the web using wild card queries. | Davood Rafiei, Haobin Li |
| 2009 | EACL | Flexible Answer Typing with Discriminative Preference Ranking. | Christopher Pinchak, Dekang Lin, Davood Rafiei |
| 2007 | ICDE | On MBR Approximation of Histories for Historical Queries: Expectations and Limitations. | Reza Sherkat, Davood Rafiei |
| 2006 | DaWaK | Bulk Loading a Linear Hash File. | Davood Rafiei, Cheng Hu |
| 2006 | ICDE | Efficiently Evaluating Order Preserving Similarity Queries over Historical Market-Basket Data. | Reza Sherkat, Davood Rafiei |
| 2006 | SIGIR | DeWild: a tool for searching the web using wild cards. | Haobin Li, Davood Rafiei |
| 2006 | SIGMOD | Approximately detecting duplicates for streaming data using stable bloom filters. | Fan Deng, Davood Rafiei |
| 2005 | WWW | ALVIN: a system for visualizing large networks. | Davood Rafiei, Stephen Curial |
| 2003 | WWW | Focused Co-citation: Improving the Retrieval of Related Pages on the Web. | Gabriela Moise, Jrg Sander, Davood Rafiei |
| 1999 | ICDE | On Similarity-Based Queries for Time Series Data. | Davood Rafiei |
| 1997 | SIGMOD | Similarity-Based Queries for Time Series Data. | Davood Rafiei, Alberto O. Mendelzon |