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Entity-Centric Query Refinement

@inproceedings{Wadden2022EntityCentricQR,
  title={Entity-Centric Query Refinement},
  author={David Wadden and Nikita Gupta and Kenton Lee and Kristina Toutanova},
  year={2022}
}
We introduce the task of entity-centric query refinement. Given an input query whose answer is a (potentially large) collection of entities, the task output is a small set of query refinements meant to assist the user in efficient domain exploration and entity discovery. We propose a method to create a training dataset for this task. For a given input query, we use an existing knowledge base taxonomy as a source of candidate query refinements, and choose a final set of refinements from among… 
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