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Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth -
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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ATESD: Abstractive Text Summarization for Domain-Specific Documents
Afzal, A. (PI) & Matthes, F. (CoPI)
1/03/23 → 30/06/25
Project: Research
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Beyond Grid Search: Leveraging Bayesian Optimization for Accelerating RAG Pipeline Optimization
Afzal, A., Zheng, X. & Matthes, F., 2026, Industry Track. Matusevych, Y., Eryigit, G. & Aletras, N. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 263-277 15 p. (EACL 2026 - 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference, Vol. 1 - (Long Papers); vol. 5).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Candidate Profile Summarization- A RAG Approach with Synthetic Data Generation for Tech Jobs
Afzal, A., Subedi, I. & Matthes, F., 2025, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing - Natural Language Processing in the Generative AI Era, RANLP 2025. Angelova, G., Kunilovskaya, M., Escribe, M. & Mitkov, R. (eds.). Incoma Ltd, p. 22-31 10 p. (International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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DA-Pred: Performance Prediction for Text Summarization under Domain-Shift and Instruct-Tuning
Afzal, A., Matthes, F. & Fabbri, A. R., 2025, EMNLP 2025 - 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference. Christodoulopoulos, C., Chakraborty, T., Rose, C. & Peng, V. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 7621-7632 12 p. (EMNLP 2025 - 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Knowing Before Saying: LLM Representations Encode Information About Chain-of-Thought Success Before Completion
Afzal, A., Matthes, F., Chechik, G. & Ziser, Y., 2025, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025. Che, W., Nabende, J., Shutova, E. & Pilehvar, M. T. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 12791-12806 16 p. (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Towards Optimizing a Retrieval Augmented Generation using Large Language Model on Academic Data
Afzal, A., Vladika, J., Fazlija, G., Staradubets, A. & Matthes, F., 13 Apr 2025, NLPIR 2024 - 2024 8th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 250-257 8 p. (NLPIR 2024 - 2024 8th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
Open Access3 Scopus citations