arXiv cs.CLSeptember 18, 2026
Verifiable by Construction: Claim-Level Evaluation of Verbatim Citation in Clinical Question Answering
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arXiv:2609.15964v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have been widely adopted for clinical question answering (QA). Current systems can attach citations to their answers, but these often point to broad texts, leaving time-pressed clinicians unable to verify them efficiently. An alternative is to ensure that responses are verifiable by construction: providing fine-grained verbatim quotes from reference material that substantiate claims, so users can verify an answer wi