Overview of the MedHopQA track at BioCreative IX: track description, participation and evaluation of systems for multi-hop medical question answering

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Main Authors:	Islamaj, Rezarta, Chan, Joey, Leaman, Robert, Jung, Jongmyung, Hwang, Hyeongsoon, Nguyen, Quoc-An, Le, Hoang-Quynh, Saisudha, Harikrishnan Gurushankar, Chandrasekar, Ganesh, Taktashov, Rustam R., Bizyukova, Nadezhda Yu., Conceição, Sofia I. R., Lopes, Paulo R. C., Salam, Reem Abdel, Adewunmi, Mary, Lu, Zhiyong
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language Information Retrieval
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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