Publications

Research at the intersection of NLP and healthcare — from clinical text generation to medical information retrieval and knowledge graphs.

2026

1 paper
Springer

Overview of ImageCLEF 2025: Multimedia Retrieval in Medical, Social Media and Content Recommendation Applications

Bogdan Ionescu, Henning Müller, Hendrik Damm, et al.

CLEF 2026 (Springer)

Medical Information RetrievalImageCLEFMultimedia

2025

6 papers
ACL

WisPerMed at ArchEHR-QA 2025: A Modular, Relevance-First Approach for Grounded Question Answering on Electronic Health Records

Jan-Henning Büns, Hendrik Damm, et al.

BioNLP Workshop @ ACL 2025

Question AnsweringEHRHealthcare NLP|ACL Anthology
Workshop

Overview of ImageCLEFmedical 2025 — Medical Concept Detection and Interpretable Caption Generation

Hendrik Damm, et al.

CLEF 2025 Working Notes (CEUR-WS)

Medical ImagingCaption GenerationImageCLEF
ACL1st Place

WisPerMed @ PerAnsSumm 2025: Strong Reasoning Through Structured Prompting and Careful Answer Selection Enhances Perspective Extraction and Summarization of Healthcare Forum Threads

Hendrik Damm, Tabea Pakull, Henning Schäfer, Peter Horn, Christoph Friedrich

CL4Health Workshop @ ACL 2025 — 1st Place

SummarizationHealthcare ForumsLLMs|ACL Anthology
Journal

Comparative Analysis of International Melanoma Guidelines

Ahmad Idrissi-Yaghir, Henning Schäfer, Hendrik Damm, Georg C. Lodde, Elisabeth Livingstone, Dirk Schadendorf, Christoph M. Friedrich

EJC Skin Cancer, 2025

Clinical GuidelinesMelanomaBibliometric Analysis|ScienceDirect
Springer

ImageCLEF 2025: Multimedia Retrieval in Medical, Social Media and Content Recommendation Applications

Bogdan Ionescu, Henning Müller, Hendrik Damm, et al.

ECIR 2025 (Springer)

Information RetrievalMedical ImagingMultimedia
ACL

Preliminary Evaluation of an Open-Source LLM for Lay Translation of German Clinical Documents

Tabea Pakull, Amin Dada, Hendrik Damm, et al.

CL4Health Workshop @ ACL 2025

Lay TranslationClinical NLPLLMs|ACL Anthology

2024

4 papers
ACL1st Place

WisPerMed at "Discharge Me!": Advancing Text Generation in Healthcare with Large Language Models, Dynamic Expert Selection, and Priming Techniques on MIMIC-IV

Hendrik Damm, Tabea Pakull, Bahadır Eryılmaz, Helmut Becker, Ahmad Idrissi-Yaghir, Henning Schäfer, Sergej Schultenkämper, Christoph M. Friedrich

BioNLP Workshop @ ACL 2024 — 1st Place

Text GenerationLLMsClinical NLP|ACL Anthology
Springer

Overview of the ImageCLEF 2024: Multimedia Retrieval in Medical Applications

Bogdan Ionescu, Henning Müller, Hendrik Damm, et al.

CLEF 2024 (Springer)

Information RetrievalMedical ImagingImageCLEF
ACL

WisPerMed at BioLaySumm: Adapting Autoregressive Large Language Models for Lay Summarization of Scientific Articles

Tabea Pakull, Hendrik Damm, Ahmad Idrissi-Yaghir, Henning Schäfer, Peter A. Horn, Christoph M. Friedrich

BioNLP Workshop @ ACL 2024 — 4th Place

Lay SummarizationLLMsBioNLP|ACL Anthology
Journal

BioKGrapher: Initial Evaluation of Automated Knowledge Graph Construction from Biomedical Literature

Henning Schäfer, Hendrik Damm, et al.

Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2024

Knowledge GraphsBiomedical Text MiningNLP|ScienceDirect

2022

2 papers
Springer

From Bag-of-Words to Transformers: A Deep Dive into the Participation in the eRisk Early Risk Detection of Depression Tasks with Classical and New Approaches

Hendrik Damm, et al.

Springer — Early Detection of Mental Health Disorders by Social Media Monitoring, 2022

Mental HealthDepression DetectionNLP
ConferenceBest Poster

Heart Rate Estimation based on Optical Flow: Enabling Smooth Angle Changes in Ultrasound Simulation

Henning Schäfer, Hendrik Damm, Christoph Friedrich

BIOSIGNALS 2022 — Best Poster Award

Computer VisionOptical FlowUltrasound

2020

1 paper
Workshop

Predicting Cognitive and Motivational Style from German Text using Multilingual Transformer Architectures

Henning Schäfer, Hendrik Damm, et al.

GermEval 2020 @ SwissText & KONVENS

Text ClassificationTransformersGerman NLP