@inproceedings{qu-farber-2026-vital,
    title = "Vital Trace: Protocol-Constrained Patient-State Reasoning for Longitudinal Clinical Trajectories",
    author = {Qu, Zhan  and
      F{\"a}rber, Michael},
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.981/",
    doi = "10.18653/2026.findings-emnlp.981",
    pages = "20734--20751",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}