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Publications
First-Author Publications
2026
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 Löffler, Juliane Fluck, Udo Hahn, Stefan Schulz, Martin Boeker. LREC Main 2026.
Conference paper
Paper · DOI: 10.63317/4eqiegnqbu96 · Project summary · Annotation agreement code · Poster
The German Medical Text Corpus: Early 2026 Update
Justin Hofenbitzer, Christina Lohr, Frank Meineke, Markus Löffler, Martin Boeker. CMLC @ LREC 2026.
Workshop contribution
Paper · DOI: 10.63317/3xopdv4wdd93 · Poster
2025
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. SRW @ ACL 2025.
Conference paper
Paper · DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.acl-srw.84 · Project summary · Data and code · Dataset · Poster
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.
Conference abstract (peer reviewed)
Paper · DOI: 10.3205/25gmds108
2021
The connection between prosodic realisations of German Wh-questions and their pragmatic embeddings
Justin Hofenbitzer, Bettina Braun & Maribel Romero. TAI 2021.
Conference paper
Paper · DOI: 10.21437/TAI.2021-49
Co-Authored Publications
2026
Conversational AI in Hereditary Cancer Care: Sociotechnical Study of Responsible Design Requirements
Dominic Lammert, Jacqueline Lammert, Justin Hofenbitzer, Tristan Radtke, Yingping Sun, Martin Haimerl, Stefanie Betz, Doran Holger Scholl, Jürgen Pfeffer. JMIR Human Factors 2026.
Journal article
Paper · DOI: 10.2196/97869
Language Models for Automatic Clinical Coding in Veterinary Texts: Experimental Results
Claudio Benzoni, Justin Hofenbitzer, Martin Boeker. MIE 2026. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.
Conference paper
Paper · 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. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.
Conference paper
Paper · DOI: 10.3233/SHTI260389
2025
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.
Conference paper
Paper · DOI: 10.3233/SHTI251406
German Medical NER with BERT and LLMs: The Impact of Training Data Size
Suteera Seeha, Sihan Wu, Justin Hofenbitzer, Claudio Benzoni, Peter Pallaoro, Raphael Scheible, Martin Boeker & Luise Modersohn. MIE 2025. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.
Conference paper
Paper · DOI: 10.3233/SHTI250469
2023
The Phonetics–Phonology–Syntax Interface: A Computational Implementation
Tina Bögel, Romi Hill, Justin Hofenbitzer & Tianyi Zhao. ICPhS 2023.
Conference paper
Paper
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 2023.
Abstract (peer reviewed)
Paper · DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-1772148
Posters
LREC 2026 Main Poster

CMLC @ LREC 2026 Poster

MIE 2026 Poster

ACL-SRW 2025 Poster

GMDS 2025 Poster

Theses
2023 · Master's Thesis
‘Form2Bot’: A pipeline to automate the generation of conversational assistants from medical questionnaires.
Supervisors: Prof. Miriam Butt and Dr. Diego Frassinelli. Written in collaboration with Fraunhofer IPA.
2021 · Bachelor's Thesis
Influences of the prosody on the presuppositional content of German wh-questions.
Reviewers: Prof. Bettina Braun and Prof. Maribel Romero.