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most citedGottBERT: a pure German Language Model

8 citations · 17 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CL2026

The Word and the Way: Strategies for Domain-Specific BERT Pre-Training in German Medical NLP

Henry He, Johann Frei, Raphael Schmitt

Digital healthcare generates vast amounts of clinical text that can support AI-assisted applications, yet German biomedical language models remain limited by older architectures or…

cs.CL2025

Infherno: End-to-end Agent-based FHIR Resource Synthesis from Free-form Clinical Notes

Johann Frei, Nils Feldhus, Lisa Raithel +3

For clinical data integration and healthcare services, the HL7 FHIR standard has established itself as a desirable format for interoperability between complex health data. Previous…

cs.CL2025

GeistBERT: Breathing Life into German NLP

Raphael Scheible-Schmitt, Johann Frei

Advances in transformer-based language models have highlighted the benefits of language-specific pre-training on high-quality corpora. In this context, German NLP stands to gain fr…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

Annotated Dataset Creation through General Purpose Language Models for non-English Medical NLP

Johann Frei, Frank Kramer

Obtaining text datasets with semantic annotations is an effortful process, yet crucial for supervised training in natural language processsing (NLP). In general, developing and app…

cs.CL2022★ 5 cited

GERNERMED++: Transfer Learning in German Medical NLP

Johann Frei, Ludwig Frei-Stuber, Frank Kramer

We present a statistical model for German medical natural language processing trained for named entity recognition (NER) as an open, publicly available model. The work serves as a…

cs.CY2022

Perspective on Code Submission and Automated Evaluation Platforms for University Teaching

Florian Auer, Johann Frei, Dominik Müller +1

We present a perspective on platforms for code submission and automated evaluation in the context of university teaching. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, such platforms have become a…

cs.CL2021

GERNERMED -- An Open German Medical NER Model

Johann Frei, Frank Kramer

The current state of adoption of well-structured electronic health records and integration of digital methods for storing medical patient data in structured formats can often consi…

cs.CL2020★ 8 cited

GottBERT: a pure German Language Model

Raphael Scheible, Johann Frei, Fabian Thomczyk +6

Pre-trained language models have significantly advanced natural language processing (NLP), especially with the introduction of BERT and its optimized version, RoBERTa. While initia…

cs.CV2018★ 2 cited

TOMAAT: volumetric medical image analysis as a cloud service

Fausto Milletari, Johann Frei, Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi

Deep learning has been recently applied to a multitude of computer vision and medical image analysis problems. Although recent research efforts have improved the state of the art,…