2026 Yoelle Maarek: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	37	10617	10319	4444	4260	137	6908

Research.com Recognitions

2013 - ACM Fellow For contributions to industrial leadership and to information retrieval and Web search.
2010 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Yoelle Maarek is affiliated with Amazon in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with particular attention to subfields such as artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, sociology and political science, and information systems.

Their work covers a range of topics, including:

AI in Service Interactions
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Speech and Dialogue Systems
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
Topic Modeling

Frequent coauthors include:

Liane Lewin-Eytan
David Carmel
Simone Filice
Guy Horowitz
Chen Shani

Yoelle Maarek has published mainly in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts
Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia

Recent significant publications include:

"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
Alexa, Let's Work Together: Introducing the First Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge on Conversational Task Assistance, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
Alexa, let's work together! How Alexa Helps Customers Complete Tasks with Verbal and Visual Guidance in the Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge, 2022, Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia
"Alexa, what do you do for fun?" Characterizing playful requests with virtual assistants, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
Generating Diverse Q&A Benchmarks for RAG Evaluation with DataMorgana, 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

Yoelle Maarek has received notable recognitions, including being named an ACM Fellow in 2013 for contributions to industrial leadership and to information retrieval and web search. In 2010, they were also recognized as an ACM Distinguished Member.

Best Publications

Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

William Hersh;Jamie Callan;Yoelle Maarek;Mark Sanderson

900
Citations
An information retrieval approach for automatically constructing software libraries

Y.S. Maarek;D.M. Berry;G.E. Kaiser

679
Citations
The shark-search algorithm. An application: tailored Web site mapping

Michael Hersovici;Michal Jacovi;Yoelle S. Maarek;Dan Pelleg

548
Citations
Searching XML documents via XML fragments

David Carmel;Yoelle S. Maarek;Matan Mandelbrod;Yosi Mass

388
Citations
Static index pruning for information retrieval systems

David Carmel;Doron Cohen;Ronald Fagin;Eitan Farchi

305
Citations
System, method and computer program product for performing unstructured information management and automatic text analysis, and providing multiple document views derived from different document tokenizations

Andrei Z Broder;David Carmel;Arthur C Ciccolo;David Ferrucci

249
Citations
Automatic tag extraction from audio annotated photos

Oren Somekh;Nadav Golbandi;Liran Katzir;Ronny Lempel

220
Citations
Automatically organizing bookmarks per contents

Yoelle S. Maarek;Israel Z. Ben Shaul

204
Citations
The Power of Noise: Redefining Retrieval for RAG Systems

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194
Citations
Learning from the past: answering new questions with past answers

Anna Shtok;Gideon Dror;Yoelle Maarek;Idan Szpektor

150
Citations
WebCutter: a system for dynamic and tailorable site mapping

Yoelle S. Maarek;Michal Jacovi;Menachem Shtalhaim;Sigalit Ur

144
Citations
Improving recommendation for long-tail queries via templates

Idan Szpektor;Aristides Gionis;Yoelle Maarek

138
Citations
Integrating information retrieval and domain specific approaches for browsing and retrieval in object-oriented class libraries

Richard Helm;Yoëlle S. Maarek

133
Citations
Full text indexing based on lexical relations an application: software libraries

Y. S. Maarek;F. Z. Smadja

118
Citations
Do you want to take notes?: identifying research missions in Yahoo! search pad

Debora Donato;Francesco Bonchi;Tom Chi;Yoelle Maarek

114
Citations
I want to answer; who has a question?: Yahoo! answers recommender system

Gideon Dror;Yehuda Koren;Yoelle Maarek;Idan Szpektor

113
Citations
Ephemeral Document Clustering for Web Applications

Yoelle S. Maarek;Ronald Fagin;Israel Z. Ben-Shaul;Dan Pelleg

106
Citations
Mobile information discovery

Michal Jacovi;Terho Laakso;Yoelle Maarek;Sagee Rosen

99
Citations
Predicting web searcher satisfaction with existing community-based answers

Qiaoling Liu;Eugene Agichtein;Gideon Dror;Evgeniy Gabrilovich

92
Citations
Interactive, tree structured, graphical visualization aid

Yoelle Smadja Maarek;Pnina Vortman;Alan Jay Wecker

83
Citations
The Shark-Search Algorithm. An Application: Tailored Web Site Mapping.

Michael Herscovici;Michal Jacovi;Yoëlle S. Maarek;Dan Pelleg

3
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David Carmel Amazon (Israel)

Ricardo Baeza-Yates Royal Institute of Technology

Gideon Dror Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo

Andrei Z. Broder Google (United States)

Eugene Agichtein Emory University

Ronald Fagin IBM (United States)

Gail E. Kaiser Columbia University

Yehuda Koren Google (United States)

Ingmar Weber Saarland University

Susan T. Dumais Microsoft (United States)

External Links

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