María Castro-Bleda
2026
ELiRF-UPV@MedExACT 2026: Dynamic Section Conditioning for Medical Decision Span Detection in Discharge Summaries
Vicent Ahuir | Lluís Hurtado | María Castro-Bleda
Proceedings of the BioNLP 2026 (Shared Tasks)
Vicent Ahuir | Lluís Hurtado | María Castro-Bleda
Proceedings of the BioNLP 2026 (Shared Tasks)
Extracting medical decisions from discharge summaries is essential for downstream clinical analytics, yet the task remains challenging due to the heterogeneous structure of electronic health records. For the MedExACT track at ACL 2026, we proposed a system that achieved the 4th position. Our approach first applies dynamic section conditioning to capture the contextual dependencies inherent in each document. A transformer backbone is then augmented with category- and section-aware layer mixing, enabling us to fuse global document structure with fine-grained semantic cues. To further improve robustness, we employ an ensemble of instruction-tuned large language models for automatic section extraction, while a fairness-oriented model selection criterion ensures that performance does not degrade on minority demographic subgroups. The resulting system attains a final score of 0.5806 on the held-out test set and demonstrates significant gains over the baseline across all evaluated subpopulations.