Yoelle Maarek

“Alexa, Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” Characterizing Playful Requests to Conversational Agents

2022 · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts

Conversational Agents (CAs) such as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa are well-suited for task-oriented interactions (“Call Jason”), but other interaction types are often beyond their capabilities. One notable example is playful requests: for example, people …

Generating Q&A Benchmarks for RAG Evaluation in Enterprise Settings

2025

Simone Filice, Guy Horowitz, David Carmel, Zohar Karnin, Liane Lewin-Eytan, Yoelle Maarek. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Industry Track). 2025.