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About Me

I'm a doctoral student at the Chair of Medical Informatics, Institute for AI and Informatics in Medicine (AIIM) at the Technical University of Munich, with a formal and computational linguistics background.

My PhD Project

My PhD project in clinical natural language processing (NLP) focuses on the analysis of clinical texts, like discharge letters or anamnesis reports, across clinical subdomains (e.g., cardiology or neurology). Particularly, I'm interested in the difference between real and synthesized clinical text data and how state-of-the-art methods can cope with clinical NLP tasks (e.g., named entity recognition, clinical coding, or ontology grounding). I'm thankful that Prof. Dr. Martin Boeker and Dr. Diego Frassinelli supervise me, and Luise Modersohn and Dr. Jacqueline Lammert advise me on my project.

Learn more about my PhD project.

GeMTeX

In the German Medical Text Corpus (GeMTeX) project, we aim to create the largest shareable collection of de-identified and semantically annotated clinical documents in German. Within that project, I'm currently leading the semantic annotation work package. Semantic annotation includes identifying relevant clinical terms and grounding them with SNOMED CT concepts. I also supervise the local annotation team.

Learn more about GeMTeX.

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Most recent news

Date News
09/25 I'm happy to travel to this year's MIRACUM-DIFUTURE Symposium in Chemnitz.
09/25 Our GMDS 2025 paper was released: GeMTeX’s De-Identification in Action: Lessons Learned & Devil’s Details.
09/25 I'm traveling to GMDS 2025 in Jena.
07/25 I'm traveling to ACL 2025 in Vienna.
07/25 Find the GerMedIQ Corpus Files as well as all scripts in my Github/Zenodo.

Feel free to reach out to me any time, I look forward to hearing from you.

Get in Touch

Justin Hofenbitzer, M.A. Speech and Language Processing
Researcher in GeMTeX & PhD Candidate

Technical University of Munich
School of Medicine and Health 
Institute for AI and Informatics in Medicine
Chair of Medical Informatics
TUM University Hospital

Grillparzerstr. 18 / 3. OG
81675 Munich
Room 3.15

+49 89 4140 4322
justin.hofenbitzer@tum.de

https://www.kiinformatik.mri.tum.de/de/Lehrstuhl-fuer-medizinische-Informatik
https://justinhofenbitzer.vercel.app