Recognition, classification and normalization of professions and occupations from medical texts

Among the socio-demographic patient characteristics, occupations play an important role regarding not only occupational health, work-related accidents and exposure to toxic/pathogenic agents, but also their impact on general physical and mental health. This paper presents the Medical Documents Profession Recognition (MEDDOPROF) shared task (held within IberLEF/SEPLN 2021), focused on the recognition and normalization of occupations in medical documents in Spanish. MEDDOPROF proposes three challenges: NER (recognition of professions, employment statuses and activities in text), CLASS (classifying each occupation mention
to its holder, i.e. patient or family member) and NORM (normalizing mentions to their identifier in ESCO or SNOMED CT).