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Owing to the growing need of acquiring medical data from clinical records, processing such documents is an important topic in natural language processing (NLP). However, for general NLP methods to work, a proper, normalized input is required. Otherwise the system is overwhelmed by the unusually high amount of noise generally characteristic of this kind of text. The different types of this noise originate...