2 - Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Developing the German Medical Text Corpus (GeMTeX): Legal Compliance and Semantic Enrichment:
Justin Hofenbitzer, Christina Lohr, Andrea Riedel, Rebekka Kiser, Aliaksandra Shutsko, Abanoub Abdelmalak, Peter Klügl, Jutta Romberg, Sarah Riepenhausen, Miriam Schechner, Jakob Faller, Frank Meineke, Luise Modersohn, Markus Loeffler, Juliane Fluck, Udo Hahn, Stefan Schulz, Martin Boeker. LREC 2026.
doi.org/10.63317/4eqiegnqbu96.
The German Medical Text Corpus: Early 2026 Update:
Justin Hofenbitzer, Christina Lohr, Frank Meineke, Markus Loeffler, Martin Boeker. LREC 2026.
Language Models for Automatic Clinical Coding in Veterinary Texts: Experimental Results:
Claudio Benzoni, Justin Hofenbitzer, Martin Boeker. MIE 2026.
doi:10.3233/SHTI260359.
Standardized Information Model for Clinical Texts: The MII Core Data Set Module Document:
Jakob Faller, Marcel Susky, Noemi Deppenwiese, Justin Hofenbitzer, Christina Lohr, Thomas Ganslandt, Martin Boeker, Frank Meineke. MIE 2026.
doi:10.3233/SHTI260389.

GerMedIQ: A Resource for Simulated and Synthesized Anamnesis Interview Responses in German:
Justin Hofenbitzer, Sebastian Schöning, Sebastian Belle, Jacqueline Lammert, Luise Modersohn, Martin Boeker & Diego Frassinelli. ACL 2025. doi:10.18653/v1/2025.acl-srw.84.
- 🚀 Access the GerMedIQ corpus on Github and Zenodo
- 💡 Find more detailed information about the paper here.
GeMTeX’s De-Identification in Action: Lessons Learned & Devil’s Details:
Christina Lohr, Jakob Faller, Andrea Riedel, Hung Manh Nguyen, Markus Wolfien, Justin Hofenbitzer, Luise Modersohn, Jutta Romberg, Fabian Prasser, Jazia Omeirat, Yutong Wen, Oksana Galusch, Udo Hahn, Marvin Seiferling, Christoph Dieterich, Peter Klügl, Franz Matthies, Janina Kind, Martin Boeker, Markus Löffler, Frank Meineke. GMDS 2025. doi:10.3233/SHTI251406.
German Medical NER with BERT and LLMs: The Impact of Training Data Size:
Seeha, Suteera, Sihan Wu, Justin Hofenbitzer, Claudio Benzoni, Peter Pallaoro, Raphael Scheible, Martin Boeker & Luise Modersohn. MIE 2025. doi:10.3233/SHTI250469.

Introducing Medical Semantic Annotation Guidelines for German Clinical Documentation with SNOMED CT:
Justin Hofenbitzer, Stefan Schulz, Martin Boeker, Peter Klügl, Sarah Riepenhausen, Christina Lohr, Jacqueline Lammert, Andrea Riedel, Luise Modersohn. GMDS 2025. doi:10.3205/25gmds108.
How to create a large distributed Non-English Medical Text Corpus (GeMTeX):
Martin Boeker, Justin Hofenbitzer, Markus Löffler, Christina Lohr, Frank Meineke & Andrea Riedel. MIE 2025. doi:10.5281/zenodo.15430362.

Prototyp eines Chatbot für das Anamnese Gespräch – Neue technische Integration von Mensch und Maschine zur Verbesserung der Arzt-Patient Interaktion:
Sebastian Belle, Manuel von Boscamp, Jeffrey Cochius, Carina Müller, Sebastian Schmitt, Justin Hofenbitzer, Oliver Österle, Matthias Ebert & Sebastian Schöning. Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie. doi:10.1055/s-0043-1772148.
The Phonetics–Phonology–Syntax Interface: A Computational Implementation:
Tina Bögel, Romi Hill, Justin Hofenbitzer & Tianyi Zhao. ICPhS 2023. ISBN 978-80-908 114-2-3.

Venue	Preview
ACL-SRW 2025 Poster
GMDS 2025 Poster

Master Thesis: ’Form2Bot’: A pipeline to automate the generation of conversational assistants from medical questionnaires (Reviewed by Prof. Dr. Miriam Butt and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Diego Frassinelli)

Bachelor Thesis: Influences of the prosody on the presuppositional content of Wh-questions in German. (Reviewed by Prof. Dr. Bettina Braun and Prof. Dr. Maribel Romero)