@inproceedings{dai-etal-2026-every, title = "Every Step Counts: Step-Level Credit Assignment for Tool-Integrated Text-to-{SQL}", author = "Dai, Yaxun and Sun, Baolin and Wang, Junying and Wang, Pengfei and Gao, Yingqi and Dong, Xuemei and Chu, Mengdie and Qi, Xiang and Chao, Pingfu", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1128/", pages = "23876--23894", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }