GGPONC: A Corpus of German Medical Text with Rich Metadata Based on Clinical Practice Guidelines

Florian Borchert, Christina Lohr, Luise Modersohn, Thomas Langer, Markus Follmann, Jan Philipp Sachs, Udo Hahn, Matthieu-P. Schapranow


Abstract
The lack of publicly accessible text corpora is a major obstacle for progress in natural language processing. For medical applications, unfortunately, all language communities other than English are low-resourced. In this work, we present GGPONC (German Guideline Program in Oncology NLP Corpus), a freely dis tributable German language corpus based on clinical practice guidelines for oncology. This corpus is one of the largest ever built from German medical documents. Unlike clinical documents, clinical guidelines do not contain any patient-related information and can therefore be used without data protection restrictions. Moreover, GGPONC is the first corpus for the German language covering diverse conditions in a large medical subfield and provides a variety of metadata, such as literature references and evidence levels. By applying and evaluating existing medical information extraction pipelines for German text, we are able to draw comparisons for the use of medical language to other corpora, medical and non-medical ones.
Anthology ID:
2020.louhi-1.5
Volume:
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis
Month:
November
Year:
2020
Address:
Online
Editors:
Eben Holderness, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Alberto Lavelli, Anne-Lyse Minard, James Pustejovsky, Fabio Rinaldi
Venue:
Louhi
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
38–48
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.louhi-1.5
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.louhi-1.5
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Cite (ACL):
Florian Borchert, Christina Lohr, Luise Modersohn, Thomas Langer, Markus Follmann, Jan Philipp Sachs, Udo Hahn, and Matthieu-P. Schapranow. 2020. GGPONC: A Corpus of German Medical Text with Rich Metadata Based on Clinical Practice Guidelines. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis, pages 38–48, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
GGPONC: A Corpus of German Medical Text with Rich Metadata Based on Clinical Practice Guidelines (Borchert et al., Louhi 2020)
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.louhi-1.5.pdf
Video:
 https://slideslive.com/38940045
Code
 JULIELab/GGPOnc
Data
GGPONC