# A Medical Information Extraction Workbench to Process German Clinical Text

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03885 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.03885/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 3 of its 55 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 8 Jul 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [Enriching Word Vectors with Subword Information](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1607.04606/) (2016)
- [GGPONC: A Corpus of German Medical Text with Rich Metadata Based on Clinical Practice Guidelines](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.06400/) (2020)
- [From Witch's Shot to Music Making Bones -- Resources for Medical Laymen to Technical Language and Vice Versa](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.11494/) (2020)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [ELMTEX: Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Structured Clinical Information Extraction. A Case Study on Clinical Reports](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.05638/) (2025)
- [Annotated Dataset Creation through General Purpose Language Models for non-English Medical NLP](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.14493/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Background: In the information extraction and natural language processing domain, accessible datasets are crucial to reproduce and compare results. Publicly available implementations and tools can serve as benchmark and facilitate the development of more complex applications. However, in the context of clinical text processing the number of accessible datasets is scarce -- and so is the number of existing tools. One of the main reasons is the sensitivity of the data. This problem is even more evident for non-English languages. Approach: In order to address this situation, we introduce a workbench: a collection of German clinical text processing models. The models are trained on a de-identified corpus of German nephrology reports. Result: The presented models provide promising results on in-domain data. Moreover, we show that our models can be also successfully applied to other biomedical text in German. Our workbench is made publicly available so it can be used out of the box, as a benchmark or transferred to related problems.