Christina Lohr

Curriculum Vitae

Work

• since 2023: Research Assistant at Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology of University Leipzig
• 2022 (part time): Klinikum Chemnitz, Data Integration Center
• 2016 - 2022: Research Assistant at JULIE Lab of Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• 2015 - 2016: Research Assistant at Chemnitz University of Technology, Chair Media Informatics and Chair Practical Computer Science
• 2007 - 2015: Student Assistant at Klinikum Chemnitz (Klinik für Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie)

Education

• 2012 - 2015: Studies of Computer Science at Chemnitz University of Technology (Master of Science)
• 2007 - 2012: Studies of Applied Computer Science at Chemnitz University of Technology (Bachelor of Science)

Research Interests

• Clinical Natural Language Processing
• Corpus Linguistics
• Privacy and De-Identification

Projects Involved

• GeMTeX (German Medical Text Corpus)
• POLAR_MI (POLypharmazie, Arzneimittelwechselwirkungen und Risiken) (part of the Medical Informatics Initiative Germany)
• MiHUBx (Medical Informatics Hub in Saxony)
• SMITH (Smart Medical Information Technology for Healthcare) (part of the Medical Informatics Initiative Germany)
• STAKI²B² (Semantic Text Analytics for Quality Controlled Extraction of Clinical Phenotype Information in Healthcare Integrated Biobanking), founded by Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (DFG)

Teaching Experience

• Basics of Theoretical computer science
• Basics of Parallel programming
• Basics of Statistics for Sports Scientists

Publications

2025

• 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. GeMTeX's De-Identification in Action: Lessons Learned & Devil's Details. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2025 Sep 3;331:274-282. [DOI: 10.3233/SHTI251406] [PMID: 40899551] [Slides] [Annotation Guidelines and GraSCCo deid annotations (update)]

• Justin Hofenbitzer, Stefan Schulz, Martin Boeker, Peter Klügl, Sarah Riepenhausen, Christina Lohr, Jacqueline Lammert, Andrea Riedel, Luise Modersohn. Introducing Medical Semantic Annotation Guidelines for German Clinical Documentation with SNOMED CT. In: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie, editors. 70. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie e. V. (GMDS). Jena, 07.-11.09.2025. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2025. DocAbstr. 282. [DOI: 10.3205/25gmds108] [Poster] [Annotationd Guideline]

• Marvin Seiferling, Christina Lohr and Dieterich, Christoph: Unlocking German Clinical Text Data: Advanced De-Identification for LLM Training in Knaup P, Dugas M, Ganzinger M (2025): 3rd Heidelberg Spring Symposium Medical Informatics. Heidelberg University Library. [DOI: 10.11588/heidok.00036594]

• Jakob Faller, Christina Lohr, Martin Boeker , Frank Meineke. Building the Infrastructure for the German Medical Text Corpus Project (GeMTeX). Stud Health Technol Inform. 2025 May 15;327:894-895. [DOI: 10.3233/SHTI250496] [PMID: 40380604] [Poster and Materials]

2024

• Christina Lohr, Franz Matthies, Jakob Faller, Luise Modersohn, Andrea Riedel, Udo Hahn, Rebekka Kiser, Martin Boeker, Frank Meineke. De-Identifying GRASCCO - A Pilot Study for the De-Identification of the German Medical Text Project (GeMTeX) Corpus. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2024 Aug 30;317:171-179. [DOI: 10.3233/SHTI240853] [PMID: 39234720] [Slides] Annotation Guidelines and GraSCCo deid annotations

• Udo Hahn, Luise Modersohn, Jakob Faller and Christina Lohr: Final Report on the German Clinical Reference Corpus 3000PA. In Studies in Health Technology and Informatics - Proceedings of the 19th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (MedInfo, 2023 July 8-12, Sydney, Australia). 2024 Jan 25. [PMID:38269879] [DOI:10.3233/SHTI231035]

2023

• Christina Lohr and Udo Hahn. 2018. DOPA METER – A Tool Suite for Metrical Document Profiling and Aggregation. In: EMNLP Demo 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, December 6-10. Pages 218–228, Singapore. [Code on GitHub] [Poster] [ACL Anthology]

• Zinaida Benenson, Abdullah Elbi, Zekeriya Erkin, Natasha Fernandes, Simone Fischer- Hübner, Ivan Habernal, Els Kindt, Anna Leschanowsky, Pierre Lison, Christina Lohr, Emily Mower Provost, Jo Pierson, David Stevens, Francisco Teixeira and Shomir Wilson: Case studies and user interaction, Chapter in Fischer-Hübner, Simone, et al. Privacy in Speech and Language Technology (Dagstuhl Seminar 22342). Dagstuhl Reports. Vol. 12. No. 8. Schloss Dagstuhl-Leibniz- Zentrum für Informatik, 2023.

• Lydia Belkadi, Martine De Cock, Natasha Fernandes, Katherine Lee, Christina Lohr, Olga Ohrimenko, Andreas Nautsch, Laurens Sion, Natalia Tomashenko, Marc Tommasi, Peggy Valcke and Emmanuel Vincent: Metrics for anonymization of unstructured datasets, Chapter in Fischer-Hübner, Simone, et al. Privacy in Speech and Language Technology (Dagstuhl Seminar 22342). Dagstuhl Reports. Vol. 12. No. 8. Schloss Dagstuhl-Leibniz- Zentrum für Informatik, 2023.

2022

• Luise Modersohn, Stefan Schulz, Christina Lohr and Udo Hahn. GraSCCo — The First Publicly Shareable, Multiply-Alienated German Clinical Text Corpus; [GMDS 2022] [DOI: 10.3233/SHTI220805] [Slides] [Corpus @ Zenodo]

• Florian Borchert, Christina Lohr, Luise Modersohn, Jonas Witt, Thomas Langer, Markus Follmann, Matthias Gietzelt, Bert Arnrich, Udo Hahn and Matthieu-P. Schapranow. GGPONC 2.0 - The German Clinical Guideline Corpus for Oncology: Curation Workflow, Annotation Policy, Baseline NER Taggers In: LREC 2022 - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Marseille, France, June 22-24, 2022. Pages 3650–3660. [Poster] [data-request@DKG] [Code on GitHub] [Code @ Zenodo] [Annotation guideline @ Zenodo]

2021

• Christina Lohr, Elisabeth Eder, Udo Hahn: Pseudonymization of PHI Items in German Clinical Reports. In: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 281: Public Health and Informatics - Proceedings of MIE 2021 [PMID: 34042748][DOI:10.3233/SHTI210163] [Code on GitHub] [Slides] [Code @ Zenodo]

2020

• Florian Borchert, Christina Lohr, Luise Modersohn, Thomas Langer, Markus Follmann, Jan Philipp Sachs, Udo Hahn, Matthieu-P. Schapranow: 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 EMNLP 2020, Nov 20 [ACL Anthology] [DOI:10.18653/v1/2020.louhi-1.5] [arXiv] [Code on GitHub] [Code @ Zenodo] [data-request@DKG] - Additional article in Gesundhyte (2020/12/13, pages 19-22)

• Christoph Weber, Lena Röschke, Luise Modersohn, Christina Lohr, Tobias Kolditz, Udo Hahn, Danny Ammon, Boris Betz, Michael Kiehntopf: Optimized Identification of Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease and Absence of Kidney Disease by Combining Different Electronic Health Data Resources and by Applying Machine Learning Strategies [PMCID: PMC7563476] [PMID: 32932685]

• Erik Faessler, Luise Modersohn, Christina Lohr, Udo Hahn: ProGene - A Large-scale, High-Quality Protein-Gene Annotated Benchmark Corpus; In: LREC 2020 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Marseille, France, May 11-16, 2020. Pages 4587–4598. [Data @ Zenodo] [ACL Anthology]

• Christina Lohr, Luise Modersohn, Johannes Hellrich, Tobias Kolditz, Udo Hahn: An Evolutionary Approach to the of Discharge Summaries. In: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 270: Digital Personalized Health and Medicine - Proceedings of MIE 2020 [PMID: 32570340][DOI:10.3233/SHTI200116] [Annotation guideline @ Zenodo]

2019

• Tobias Kolditz, Christina Lohr, Johannes Hellrich, Luise Modersohn, Boris Betz, Michael Kiehntopf, Udo Hahn: Annotating German Clinical Documents for De-Identification (MedInfo 2019 Aug 25-30 Lyon France) [Slides] [PMID:31437914] [DOI:10.3233/SHTI190212] [Annotation guideline @ Zenodo]

• Christina Lohr, Johannes Kiesel, Stephanie Luther, Johannes Hellrich, Benno Stein, Udo Hahn: Continuous Quality Control and Advanced Text Segment Annotation with WAT-SL 2.0 In The 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop ACL 2019, August 1, Italy Firence [Code on GitHub] [Poster] [ACL Anthology][DOI:10.18653/v1/W19-4025]

2018

• Christina Lohr, Stephanie Luther, Franz Matthies, Luise Modersohn, Danny Ammon, Kutaiba Saleh, Andreas G. Henkel, Michael Kiehntopf, and Udo Hahn: CDA-Compliant Section Annotation of German-Language Discharge Summaries: Guideline Development, Annotation Campaign, Section Classification. In: AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings 2018, San Francisco, USA, Nov 3-7. [Slides] [PMCID: PMC6371337] [PMID: 30815119] [Annotation guideline @ Zenodo]

• Christina Lohr, Sven Buechel, and Udo Hahn. 2018. Sharing Copies of Synthetic Clinical Corpora without Physical Distribution - A Case Study to Get Around IPRs and Privacy Constraints Featuring the German JSYNCC Corpus. In: LREC 2018 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Miyazaki, Japan, May 7-12, 2018. Pages 1259-1266. [Code on GitHub] [Poster] [ACL Anthology]

• Udo Hahn, Franz Matthies, Christina Lohr, Markus Löffler. 3000PA-Towards a National Reference Corpus of German Clinical Language. In: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 247: Building Continents of Knowledge in Oceans of Data: The Future of Co-Created eHealth - Proceedings of MIE 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden, April 24-26 2018. [Slides] [PMID: 29677916][DOI:10.3233/978-1-61499-852-5-26] [Annotation guideline @ Zenodo]

2016

• Christina Lohr and Robert Herms: A Corpus of German Clinical Reports for ICD and OPS-based Language Modeling. In: Key-Sun Choi and Sejin Nam (Eds.): Proceedings of the Controlled Language Applications Workshop (CLAW) at LREC 2016, Portorož, Slovenia, may 28 2016, pp. 20-23.

• Mike Ebersbach, Robert Herms, Christina Lohr, and Maximilian Eib: Wrappers for Feature Subset Selection in CRF-based Clinical Information Extraction. In: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF), CLEF eHealth Lab, Évora, Portugal, September 05-08 2016.

2014

• Christina Lohr and Robert Herms: Vertrauen in Spracherkennung…?. In: Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2014 Tagungsband, Chemnitz, Gemany, March 15-16 2014, pp. 107-115.

2012

• Christina Lohr: Sprachmodelladaption von CMU Sphinx für den Einsatz in der Medizin. In: Studentensymposium Informatik Chemnitz 2012, Tagungsband zum 1. Studentensymposium Chemnitz vom 4. Juli 2012, July 04 2012, Germany, pp. 38-51.

Contact

Email	christina.lohr@imise.uni-leipzig.de
Postal Address	Härtelstraße 16-18 04107 Leipzig Germany
ORCID	0000-0001-9889-162X
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