YU Chen
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2026
FinCARDS: Card-Based Analyst Reranking for Financial Document Question Answering
Yixi Zhou | Fan Zhang | YU Chen | Haipeng Zhang | Preslav Nakov | Zhuohan Xie
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Yixi Zhou | Fan Zhang | YU Chen | Haipeng Zhang | Preslav Nakov | Zhuohan Xie
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Financial question answering (QA) over long corporate filings requires evidence to satisfy strict constraints on entities, financial metrics, fiscal periods, and numeric values. However, existing LLM-based rerankers primarily optimize semantic relevance, leading to unstable rankings and opaque decisions on long documents. We propose FINCARDS, a structured reranking framework that reframes financial evidence selection as constraint satisfaction under a finance-aware schema. FINCARDS represents filing chunks and questions using aligned schema fields (entities, metrics, periods, and numeric spans), enabling deterministic field-level matching. Evidence is selected via a multi-stage tournament reranking with stability-aware aggregation, producing auditable decision traces. Across two corporate filing QA benchmarks, FINCARDS substantially improves early-rank retrieval over both lexical and LLM-based reranking baselines, while reducing ranking variance, without requiring model fine-tuning or unpredictable inference budgets. Our code is available at https://github.com/XanderZhou2022/FINCARDS.