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MAPLE: Medical Aspect-Based Summarization with Phrase-Level Evidence

Bohao Chu, Hendrik Damm, Tabea M. G. Pakull, Sameh Frihat +4 more

Published

Jan 6, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Moderate

Usefulness score

65/100 (Medium)

Extraction confidence

70% (Moderate)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Domain Experts

Signals refreshed

Sep 29, 2026

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper has useful evaluation signal, but protocol completeness is partial; pair it with related papers before deciding implementation strategy.

Use this for comparison and orientation, not as your only source.

Best use

Secondary protocol comparison source

Use if you need

A secondary eval reference to pair with stronger protocol papers.

What to verify

Validate the evaluation procedure and quality controls in the full paper before operational use.

Main weakness

No major weakness surfaced.

Human feedback signal
Detected
From extracted signals
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
65/100
Moderate-confidence candidate

Useful as a secondary reference; validate protocol details against neighboring papers.

Abstract

Trustworthy clinical summarization requires every claim to be traceable to its evidence, yet existing attribution often resolves only to the sentence or document, leaving clinicians to scan surrounding text for the few words that matter. We argue that the unit of attribution should match the unit of verification: the precise phrase the reader's eye must land on. We present MAPLE (Medical Aspect-Based Summarization with Phrase-Level Evidence), a human-annotated benchmark that grounds each summarized claim in both cited sentences and contributory phrases within them. Spanning 152 randomized controlled trial (RCT) abstracts and 16 clinically motivated aspects, MAPLE comprises 1,799 aspect-based summaries with two-level evidence. We further introduce a decoupled evaluation framework that separately scores content, traceability, and locatability, together with a proxy for the amount of source text a clinician must inspect to verify a claim. Benchmarking eleven LLMs shows that sentence-level citation is consistently strong (C-F1 up to 90.9%), while phrase-level grounding remains less stable and the most discriminative axis across models (P-F1 66.1-84.5%). These results suggest that the key challenge is not only producing accurate summaries, but localizing their supporting evidence precisely enough for efficient clinical verification. Data and code are available at https://github.com/chubohao/maple.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

strong

Expert Verification

Directly usable for protocol triage.

"Trustworthy clinical summarization requires every claim to be traceable to its evidence, yet existing attribution often resolves only to the sentence or document, leaving clinicians to scan surrounding text for the few words that matter."

Evaluation Modes

strong

Automatic Metrics

Includes extracted eval setup.

"Trustworthy clinical summarization requires every claim to be traceable to its evidence, yet existing attribution often resolves only to the sentence or document, leaving clinicians to scan surrounding text for the few words that matter."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Trustworthy clinical summarization requires every claim to be traceable to its evidence, yet existing attribution often resolves only to the sentence or document, leaving clinicians to scan surrounding text for the few words that matter."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Trustworthy clinical summarization requires every claim to be traceable to its evidence, yet existing attribution often resolves only to the sentence or document, leaving clinicians to scan surrounding text for the few words that matter."

Reported Metrics

strong

F1

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"Trustworthy clinical summarization requires every claim to be traceable to its evidence, yet existing attribution often resolves only to the sentence or document, leaving clinicians to scan surrounding text for the few words that matter."

Rater Population

strong

Domain Experts

Helpful for staffing comparability.

"Trustworthy clinical summarization requires every claim to be traceable to its evidence, yet existing attribution often resolves only to the sentence or document, leaving clinicians to scan surrounding text for the few words that matter."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

f1
Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
Yes
Feedback types
Expert Verification
Rater population
Domain Experts
Expertise required
Medicine, Coding
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Automatic Metrics
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Moderate
Use this page as
Secondary protocol comparison source

Research brief

Metadata summary

Trustworthy clinical summarization requires every claim to be traceable to its evidence, yet existing attribution often resolves only to the sentence or document, leaving clinicians to scan surrounding text for the few words that matter.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Trustworthy clinical summarization requires every claim to be traceable to its evidence, yet existing attribution often resolves only to the sentence or document, leaving clinicians to scan surrounding text for the few words that matter.
  • We argue that the unit of attribution should match the unit of verification: the precise phrase the reader's eye must land on.
  • We present MAPLE (Medical Aspect-Based Summarization with Phrase-Level Evidence), a human-annotated benchmark that grounds each summarized claim in both cited sentences and contributory phrases within them.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Validate inferred eval signals (Automatic metrics) against the full paper.
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Recommended queries

Contribution summary

  • We present MAPLE (Medical Aspect-Based Summarization with Phrase-Level Evidence), a human-annotated benchmark that grounds each summarized claim in both cited sentences and contributory phrases within them.
  • We further introduce a decoupled evaluation framework that separately scores content, traceability, and locatability, together with a proxy for the amount of source text a clinician must inspect to verify a claim.
  • Benchmarking eleven LLMs shows that sentence-level citation is consistently strong (C-F1 up to 90.9%), while phrase-level grounding remains less stable and the most discriminative axis across models (P-F1 66.1-84.5%).

Why it matters for eval

  • We present MAPLE (Medical Aspect-Based Summarization with Phrase-Level Evidence), a human-annotated benchmark that grounds each summarized claim in both cited sentences and contributory phrases within them.
  • Benchmarking eleven LLMs shows that sentence-level citation is consistently strong (C-F1 up to 90.9%), while phrase-level grounding remains less stable and the most discriminative axis across models (P-F1 66.1-84.5%).

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    Detected: Expert Verification

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Automatic Metrics

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    Detected: f1