Strong Reasoning Isn’t Enough: Evaluating Evidence Elicitation in Interactive Diagnosis (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing evaluations of medical consultation are static or outcome-centric, neglecting the evidence-gathering process. |
| Approach: | They propose an interactive evaluation framework that explicitly models the consultation process using a simulated patient and a measurement module grounded in atomic evidences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed evaluation framework outperforms baseline evaluation methods in medical consultation settings. |
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