@inproceedings{gollapalli-etal-2026-pro,
    title = "Pro-{Q}u{EST}: A Prompt-chain based Quiz Engine for testing Specialized Technical Product Knowledge",
    author = "Gollapalli, Sujatha Das  and
      Hakam, Mouad  and
      Du, Mingzhe  and
      Ng, See-Kiong  and
      Hamzeh, Mohammed",
    editor = "Croce, Danilo  and
      Leidner, Jochen  and
      Moosavi, Nafise Sadat",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the {E}uropean Chapter of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)",
    month = mar,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Rabat, Marocco",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-eacl/2026.eacl-demo.4/",
    pages = "46--60",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-382-1",
    abstract = "In today{'}s rapidly evolving large language model (LLM) landscape, technology companies such as Cisco face the difficult challengeof selecting the most suitable model for downstream tasks that demand deep, domain-specificproduct knowledge. Specialized benchmarks not only inform this decision making but alsocan be leveraged to rapidly create quizzes that can effectively train engineering and marketingpersonnel on novel product offerings in a continually growing Cisco product space.We present Pro-QuEST, our Prompt-chain based Quiz Engine using state-of-the-art LLMsfor generating multiple-choice questions on Specialized Technical products. In Pro-QuEST,we first identify key terms and topics from a given professional certification textbook orproduct guide, and generate a series of multiple-choice questions using domain-knowledgeguided prompts. We show LLM benchmarking results with the question benchmarks generated by Pro-QuEST using a range of latestopen-source, and proprietary LLMs and compare them with expert-created exams and review questions to derive insights on their composition and difficulty. Our experiments indicate that though there is room for improvementin Pro-QuEST to generate questions of the complexity levels seen in expert-designed certification exams, question-type based prompts provide a promising direction to address this limitation. In sample user studies with Cisco personnel, Pro-QuEST was received with high optimism for its practical usefulness in quicklycompiling quizzes for self-assessment on knowledge of novel products in the rapidly changing tech sector."
}