Papers with document generation
Findings of the Third Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation (D19-56)
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Hiroaki Hayashi, Yusuke Oda, Alexandra Birch, Ioannis Konstas, Andrew Finch, Minh-Thang Luong, Graham Neubig, Katsuhito Sudoh
| Challenge: | The 3rd Workshop on Neural Machine Translation and Generation (WNGT) was held in concert with the annual conference of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2019). |
| Approach: | They describe the results of the third workshop on Neural Generation and Translation held in concert with the annual conference of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2019). |
| Outcome: | The results of the 3rd Workshop on Neural Machine Translation and Generation (WNGT) were summarized in Sections 3 and 4. |
Feedback-Driven Tool-Use Improvements in Large Language Models via Automated Build Environments (2026.findings-acl)
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Junjie Ye, Changhao Jiang, Zhengyin Du, Yufei Xu, Xuesong Yao, Zhiheng Xi, Xiaoran Fan, Qi Zhang, Tao Gui, Xuanjing Huang, Jiecao Chen
| Challenge: | Currently, there are no efficient reinforcement learning (RL) frameworks specifically designed for tool use. |
| Approach: | They propose an automated environment construction pipeline that incorporates scenario decomposition, document generation, function integration, complexity scaling, and localized deployment to enable high-quality training environments without external tools. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework significantly improves the models’ tool-use performance without degrading their general capabilities. |
PLAWBENCH: A Rubric-Based Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs in Real-World Legal Practice (2026.acl-long)
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Yuzhen Shi, Huanghai Liu, Yiran HU, Song Gaojie, Xu Xinran, Yubo Ma, Tianyi Tang, Li Zhang, Qingjing Chen, Feng Di, Wenbo Lv, Weiheng Wu, Kexin Yang, Sen Yang, Wei Wang, Rongyao Shi, Qiu Yuanyang, Yuemeng Qi, Zhang Jingwen, Sui Xiaoyu, Yifan Chen, Zhang Yi, An Yang, Bowen Yu, Dayiheng Liu, Junyang Lin, Weixing Shen, Bing Zhao, Charles L. A. Clarke, HU Wei
| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) are coarse, single-dimensional metrics and do not explicitly assess fine-grained legal reasoning. |
| Approach: | They propose a Practical Law Benchmark to evaluate large language models in real-world legal practice scenarios. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is based on 850 questions and 13 scenarios with expert-designed evaluation rubrics. |
DiffusionRet: Diffusion-Enhanced Generative Retriever using Constrained Decoding (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Generative retrieval methods have suffered from the lack of the intermediate reasoning step . generative retrieval uses sequence-to-sequence diffusion models to map a query to relevant docids . |
| Approach: | They propose a novel method that uses query as an intermediate step before retrieval . they propose to use sequence-to-sequence diffusion models to map a query to relevant docids . |
| Outcome: | Experiments show that proposed method outperforms existing methods on MARCO and Natural Questions datasets. |
TextLap: Customizing Language Models for Text-to-Layout Planning (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Creating 2D graphical layouts from text alone is challenging in traditional settings. |
| Approach: | They propose to customize LLMs to allow users to generate professional looking layouts by simply inputting text instructions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing benchmarks for document generation and graphical design benchmarks. |
Knowledge-Centric Templatic Views of Documents (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Prior work on document generation has tackled the creation of each separate format as a different task, leading to fragmented learning processes, redundancy in models and methods, and disjointed evaluation. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that unifies the generation and evaluation of templatic views of documents in multiple formats. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves performance for heterogeneous downstream applications while reducing the need for task specific evaluation metrics. |
Improving Zero-shot LLM Re-Ranker with Risk Minimization (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) are effective Query Likelihood Models, but their estimation is biased and the model's accuracy is poor. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework which leverages Bayesian decision theory to quantify and mitigate this bias. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves re-ranking, especially in improving the Top-1 accuracy. |
Mina: A Multilingual LLM-Powered Legal Assistant Agent for Empowering Access to Justice in Bangladesh (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing AI legal assistants lack Bengali-language support and jurisdiction-specific adaptation, limiting their effectiveness. |
| Approach: | They developed a multilingual LLM-based legal assistant tailored for the Bangladeshi context that employs multilingual embeddings and a RAG-based chain-of-tools framework for retrieval, reasoning, translation, and document generation. |
| Outcome: | Evaluated by law faculty from leading Bangladeshi universities across all stages of the 2022 and 2023 Bangladesh Bar Council examinations, Mina achieved scores of 75–80% in preliminary MCQs, written, and simulated viva voce components. |