Extracting social determinants of health from clinical note text with classification and sequence-to-sequence approaches

Brian Romanowski, Asma Ben Abacha, Yadan Fan

Abstract: Social determinants of health (SDOH) are nonmedical factors that can influence health outcomes. This paper seeks to extract SDOH from clinical texts in the context of the National NLP Clinical Challenges (n2c2) 2022 Track 2 Task.