Yetian Wang


2026

We present the CanSA system for the MedEx-ACT@ACL 2026 shared task, which requires extracting and classifying clinical decisions from ICU discharge summaries into nine DIC-TUM categories. We have developed three approaches: (1) a training-free system which consists of a preprocessing module that normalizes text and an inference engine combining zero shot LLMs with a RAG ensemble, (2) a supervised fine-tuning method which required training, and (3) a training-free retrieval-augmented pipeline employing TF–IDF-based lexical retrieval to surface in-context exemplars from the development corpus, combined with section aware chunking and structured extraction calls to a large language model. Our team’s best submission achieved a Final Score of 0.41, ranking 34th out of 37 on the official test leaderboard.