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        <article-title>BERT and Approximate String Matching for Automatic Recognition and Normalization of Professions in Spanish Medical Documents</article-title>
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          <string-name>V ctor Suarez-Paniagua</string-name>
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          <string-name>Arlene Casey</string-name>
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          <institution>Advanced Care Research Centre, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh</institution>
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          <institution>Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh</institution>
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        <p>This publication presents the participation of the EdIE-KnowLab team in the MEDical DOcuments PROFessions recognition shared task from IberLeF 2021. The proposed system consists of a Spanish version of the BERT classi cation model, BETO, for the Named Entity Recognition tasks and an approximate string matching technique using Damerau{Levenshtein distance for the Normalization task. The NER systems reached 64.3% and 60.4% in Micro-Average F1 for Task 1 and Task 2, respectively. The approximate string matching approach obtained 17.8% in F1 for the Normalization task. Source code to reproduce the results is available under the MIT license at https://github.com/ vsuarezpaniagua/EdIE-MEDDOPROF.</p>
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        <kwd>Named Entity Recognition</kwd>
        <kwd>Normalization</kwd>
        <kwd>Medical Documents</kwd>
        <kwd>Deep Learning</kwd>
        <kwd>BERT</kwd>
        <kwd>Damerau{Levenshtein</kwd>
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      <p>
        Determining occupational status of a patient is important information that can
be used to model and provide surveillance about disease and has the potential to
provide intervention strategies. Recent work has demonstrated the importance
of understanding occupational status and how it links to aspects of health e.g.,
health inequality [29], occurrence of chronic disease [36], and mental health [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">3</xref>
        ].
Understanding patient occupation has become more acutely relevant with the
recent Covid-19 pandemic where speci c occupation roles have been more
adversely impacted than others. Occupational information though is often found in
free-text as opposed to structured elds in medical texts. Chilmane et al. [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref8">8</xref>
        ] show
that compared to structured elds, where only 14% of records hold occupational
status, using NLP on the free-text records of patients they can increase patient
record occupational status to 57%. Extracting information like occupation
status from free-text is known as Named Entity Recognition (NER). NER tasks
seek to locate and classify named entities in unstructured text into pre-de ned
categories, such as person names, locations, medical codes, time expressions,
occupations. The challenge with free-text medical records is they are highly
unstructured, non-standardised, and can lack semantic and syntactic cohesiveness
[
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>
        ].
      </p>
      <p>
        This work describes our submissions to the MEDical DOcuments
PROFessions recognition shared task (MEDDOPROF) [24] which is part of the
IberLEF2021. In this task participants must develop an automated approach to
detect occupation or occupational status, who the occupation is referring to and
nally the normalization to a valid occupational code within Spanish medical
documents. Our main approach is to use BETO [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref7">7</xref>
        ], a BERT pre-trained model
for Spanish NER tasks, and an approximate string matching technique using
Damerau{Levenshtein distance for the Normalization task.
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    <sec id="sec-2">
      <title>Related Work</title>
      <p>
        The NER task within the medical eld is not new with early research based
on systems, such as MedLEE [17], MetaMap [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2">2</xref>
        ] and cTAKES [31]. Most of
these early systems though are rule-based and supported with medical lexicon
approaches. In more recent times the task of NER has been approached using
pretrained language models [35], particularly Bidirectional Encoder Representations
from Transformers (BERT) [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref10">10</xref>
        ]. This approach is outperforming other methods
[
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref11">23,11</xref>
        ] and this trend continues in the biomedical domain [22,18].
      </p>
      <p>
        Occupation status has been researched within the framework of de-identi cation,
detection of personal information in order to remove or replace, anonymising
the text [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref6">25,6</xref>
        ]. Ahmed et al. [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>
        ] benchmark NER tasks on clinical text for
de-identi cation. They compare a variety of deep learning methods and show
Bi-LSTM CRF to be overall best, outperforming Transformer methods alone.
However, looking at the individual entities the Transformer method provides
the highest Recall for Profession. In addition, they comment that clinical texts
su er from varying lengths and believe this impacted the Transformers ability
to adequately detect long term dependencies but that the model could be
further improved by expanding the Transformer architecture beyond two layers of
multi-level attention.
      </p>
      <p>
        In recent years there have been shared tasks which focus on Spanish health
or medical text and include extraction of occupation status. For example,
MEDDOCAN [26] use Spanish medical text for NER detection in a de-identi cation
task, which included Profession as an entity. The task was based on a
synthetic corpus of clinical documents, with many well performing entries based
on LSTM CRF architectures [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref12">30,33,12</xref>
        ]. Lange et al. [21] the top performing
entry with a Bi-LSTM model investigated several embedding types as input.
Whilst performance di erences were small they concluded that domain-speci c
input representations perform best for Recall and the domain-independent input
representations perform best in terms of Precision.
      </p>
      <p>
        In ProfNer [28], the best results are obtained by the teams that have used
Transformer-based architectures. The ProfNER task focuses on the detection of
profession and occupational status on Spanish health related social media text.
The top ranking entry in this task [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref5">5</xref>
        ] used a BETO classi er with
Hyperparameter Optimization (HPO) to ne-tune the model parameters. They compare two
systems, a Transformer based model and a RNN model. As the performance is
better in BETO they align this to the transfer capabilities of using a pre-trained
language model and the ability to ne-tune to the task. They do not use any
external knowledge, such as an occupation dictionary, but believe this could
further improve performance. Other participants show that inclusion of a custom
dictionary improves performance [27]. Yaseen et al. [37] demonstrate that the
stacking of di erent embeddings improves the overall score. Speci cally for NER
they use Spanish BERT, fastText [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref4">4</xref>
        ], BytePair sub-word [19] but do not ne
tune any of the embeddings.
      </p>
      <p>Our main approach is to use a Transformer architecture with the Spanish
BERT approach, BETO, for the NER tasks. The model combines multiple BETO
classi ers that are ne-tuned independently for each entity type. We did not
utilise any dictionary knowledge or additional embeddings but these may be
interesting angles to explore in the future to improve performance.
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      <title>Dataset</title>
      <p>
        The MEDDOPROF corpus [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref14">15,14</xref>
        ] contains 1500 and 344 Spanish clinical cases
for the training set and the test set from 20 di erent specialties. A team of clinical
experts and linguists annotated the medical document following a guideline [16]
using Brat Stando format [32]. Task 1 consists of the classi cation of occupation
mentions such as a profession (Profesion), an employment status (Situacion
Laboral ), and an activity (Actividad ). Task 2 involves the recognition of the
person who the occupation is referring to such as the patient (Paciente), a health
profession (Sanitario), a family member (Familiar ), or to someone else (Otros).
Task 3 determines the normalization of each mention to one of the valid codes
from a list [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref13">13</xref>
        ] extracted from SNOMED-CT and the European multilingual
classi cation of Skills, Competences and Occupations (ESCO). Table 1 shows
the total number of mentions for each entity type in the Task 1 and Task 2.
      </p>
      <p>The organizers also provided a complementary entity dataset of additional
labelled mentions that can be used by participants with clinical entities such as
symptoms, diseases, drugs and procedures, and linguistic entities such as
negation trigger, uncertainty trigger and their scopes. However, in our experiments
we decided to use only the information given by the training set.
3.1</p>
      <p>Data preprocessing
The rst stage taken is to prepare the data for the NER classi er. The
medical documents were transformed into lower case, some special characters were
replaced by a white space and the sentences were tokenized using the Spanish
pipeline of spaCy [20]. In addition, the annotations were marked with the BIOES
encoding, which is an extension of the BIO tag schema [34], where the tags 'B',
'I', 'E', 'S' indicate the token positions in the mentions as the beginning, the
inside, the ending, and the single token entity, respectively, and the 'O' represents
the tokens that are not entities.</p>
      <p>In the corpus there are some clinical cases that contain more than four
thousand tokens. However, the current BETO classi er only allows sentences with
512 tokens or less. For this reason, the medical documents were split into di
erent parts with the maximum number of sentences until they reach 512 tokens or
lower. The span of these split parts are saved to keep track of the o sets after
recognizing the entities for the nal prediction.</p>
      <p>Some annotated documents contain embedded entities, these annotations
were deoverlapped by taking the longest mention and ltering out any additional
entity contained within it. For instance, the sentence 'En Diciembre inicia un
negocio con pareja.' ('In December he/she starts a business with a partner.') has
two annotated mentions 'inicia un negocio' ('start a business ') and 'inicia un
negocio con pareja' ('start a business with a partner ') where the rst entity was
discarded and the second entity is kept as it is the longest one. Moreover, we
used multiple NER classi ers, one per each entity type, to solve the problem of
the overlapping mentions with di erent classes.
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      <title>Methods</title>
      <p>The annotations in the medical documents were divided for each entity type
after the preprocessing phase. For Task 1 and Task 2, a single uncased BETO
NER classi er was applied for each type of mention to be trained and validated
independently in order to obtain the best performance. Figure 1 shows the single
BETO classi ers applied to a medical document for each class and, then, the
predictions were merged to create the nal annotation.</p>
      <p>During model development we observed that some entity types were not
widely represented within the training set and the BETO model learned to
recognize all the tokens as 'O'-tag. To solve this problem, a basic
undersampling technique was introduced, which lters out all the documents that do not
contain any positive tag ('B','I','E', or 'S'). Thus, forcing the BETO classi er
to learn from these examples instead of having many documents without
entities. We refer to this approach as BETO+Positive in the experiments while
BETO+ALL refers to the approach that uses all the training set. In addition,
we incorporated training and validation sets from the ProfNER Task [28] in
order to have a greater representation of professions. These models are denoted as
BETO+ProfNER in the results.</p>
      <p>
        For Task 3, the normalization of the professions, we compared each
recognized entity to the provided list of valid codes using an exact string matching
technique. Then, we applied an approximate string matching technique called
Damerau{Levenshtein distance [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref9">9</xref>
        ] for those mentions that were not assigned by
the previous method. The Damerau{Levenshtein distance is a string metric that
calculates the distance between two strings using the operations of insertion,
deletion, substitution, and the transposition of two adjacent character. Thus, we
could match the professions to the most similar code in order to normalize them.
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      <title>Results</title>
      <p>The results were measured using the metrics of Precision, Recall and F1 in
MicroAverage. In the experiments, the BETO classi ers were trained for 8 epochs with
80% of the training set for each class independently, and evaluated over 20% of
the training set using early stopping criteria.</p>
      <p>Table 3 shows the results of the EdIE-KnowLab team for the Task 2 including
the performance by entity type. Similarly to Task 1, the performance in the type
Familiar is 0% in F1 if the complete training set is used (BETO+ALL) and this
could be increased if we only used the positive examples (BETO+Positives) to
16.6% in F1. However, the results in the types Paciente, Sanitario, and Otros
are lower resulting in a worse performing Micro-Average. It can be concluded
that the models which use the complete dataset have better Precision while
the models which only uses the positive examples have better Recall in
MicroAverage and almost all the classes.</p>
      <p>Table 4 shows the results of the EdIE-KnowLab team for the Task 3 which
is the normalization of the recognized mention. Contrary to the previous tasks,
the normalization task depends directly on the performance of the recognition
Submission
BETO+All</p>
      <p>Precision
Recall
F1
Precision
Recall
F1</p>
      <p>Precision
BETO+Positive Recall</p>
      <p>F1
BETO+All
+ProfNER
BETO+Positive Precision
+ProfNER Recall</p>
      <p>F1
of mentions by the NER models. Thus, the models that obtained better
results in the development sets were chosen for normalization of their outputs.
For this reason, we decided to use the outputs of the BETO+Positive and the
BETO+Positive+ProfNER from Task 1 and the BETO+Positive from Task 2.
The results con rms that the performance in the normalization is directly
related with the performance in NER tasks. The BETO+Positive from Task 1 is
the best con guration reaching 17.8% in Micro-Average F1.
This paper presents the participation of the EdIE-KnowLab for the
MEDDOPROF recognition shared tasks from IberLeF 2021. The proposed methods are a
single BETO classi er applied to each entity type for the classi cation of
occupation mentions and the recognition of the person who the occupation is referring,
and the use of the Damerau-Levenshtein distance to match the recognized
professions to one of the valid codes from a given list. The NER model obtained
64.3% using only the positives examples, and 60.4% using all the training set in
Micro-Average F1 for the Task 1 and 2, respectively. As BERT models usually
do not allow sentences greater than 512 tokens, the documents were divided into
di erent parts and the recognized mentions in each split were merged in the nal
prediction le. In general, the models that used the complete dataset for training
obtained best Precision while the models that used only the positive examples
obtained best Recall. In the normalization task, the approximate string
matching approach reached to 17.8% in F1 with the BETO+Positives outputs of the
Task 1. As future work, we will explore the combination of the BETO classi er
with di erent con gurations for the NER tasks, and include some
preprocessing over the recognized entities such as removing stop words, lemmatization, or
stemming for the normalization task.</p>
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      <title>Acknowledgments</title>
      <p>The authors would like to thank to members in the Clinical Natural Language
Processing Research Group and KnowLab in the University of Edinburgh and
University College London for their valuable discussion and comments. This
work was supported by the HDR UK National Text Analytics Implementation
Project, Wellcome Institutional Translation Partnership Awards (PIII029), a
Legal and General PLC (research grant to establish the independent Advanced
Care Research Centre at University of Edinburgh). Legal and General PLC had
no role in conduct of the study, interpretation or the decision to submit for
publication. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily
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