@article{hofenbitzer-etal-2026-developing,
    title = "Developing the {G}erman Medical Text Corpus ({G}e{MT}e{X}): Legal Compliance and Semantic Enrichment",
    author = {Hofenbitzer, Justin  and
      Lohr, Christina  and
      Riedel, Andrea  and
      Kiser, Rebekka  and
      Shutsko, Aliaksandra  and
      Abdelmalak, Abanoub  and
      Kl{\"u}gl, Peter  and
      Romberg, Jutta  and
      Riepenhausen, Sarah  and
      Schechner, Miriam  and
      Faller, Jakob  and
      Meineke, Frank  and
      Modersohn, Luise  and
      L{\"o}ffler, Markus  and
      Fluck, Juliane  and
      Hahn, Udo  and
      Schulz, Stefan  and
      Boeker, Martin},
    editor = "Piperidis, Stelios  and
      Bel, N{\'u}ria  and
      van den Heuvel, Henk  and
      Ide, Nancy  and
      Krek, Simon  and
      Toral, Antonio",
    journal = "International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation",
    volume = "main",
    month = may,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
    publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-lrec/2026.lrec-main.122/",
    pages = "1571--1584",
    abstract = "GeMTeX is a large-scale German Medical Text Corpus project with the goal to publish a clinical national reference corpus. The resource is currently under construction and comprises, as of February 2026, more than 15k clinical documents (20M tokens) from six German university hospitals. When building GeMTeX, attention was paid to comply with European regulatory requirements. In phase I, patients were asked to allow reuse of their clinical documents based on the legal foundation of an ``informed consent''. In phase II, consented documents from six major clinical sites in Germany underwent a thorough de-identification process. In phase III, we currently enrich this unlocked dataset with semantic information from the clinical domain. This annotation process is guided by Snomed CT, which supports to directly ground expressions within clinical documents in a worldwide shared medical documentation and ontology standard. The resource is currently under active development and is accessible upon request under controlled access conditions. We refer interested researchers to visit https://kiinformatik.mri.tum.de/en/gemtex or reach out via gemtex.mi@mh.tum.de."
}