“…Query clarification refers to the process of improving a search query by adding more context or details to it. In recent years, query clarification has become an essential task in various domains, such as entity disambiguation [21], voice [29], dialogue [8,49], question answering [9,52,70], recommendation [18,78]. In mixed-initiative search systems where the initiative shifts back and forth between agents and users [5,28], asking clarifying questions has received considerable attention [27,45,56,76].…”