Re: Determine gender from first name
Hey Demetrio
You can use http://genderize.io which is a free API.
A problem with determining a gender from a name is that people can call
their children almost anything they'd like. Genderize.io tries to solve
this by collecting data from social networks (where people can also call
themselves whatever they'd like). Furthermore, it has the ability of
filtering results by country or language.
It also provides a certainty factor along with the gender. So you can set a
bar of when you want to trust it.
Den onsdag den 25. januar 2012 09.49.22 UTC+1 skrev Demetrio Girardi:
>
> This is not a django-specific question, but I couldn't find anything
> useful on the subject and have no better place to ask.
>
> Let's say I want to put "welcome {{user.first_name}}" on top of my
> template. In many languages, "welcome" has to be declined by gender. I
> have no use for the user's gender otherwise, so I don't want to ask
> for it in the registration process.
>
> How can I go about this? Is there a publicly available database of
> first names divided by language and gender? A public web-service that
> guesstimates the gender?
>
>
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Re: Determine gender from first name
Den 25-01-2012 09:59, Praveen Krishna R skrev: *I don't know if there are any databases or webservices available for the purpose. But how would you handle the exceptions ?! Like if it does not exist in the db, and common names used across genders ?!* * * In general this would not be possible. Kim, e.g., is used as a female name in English and as a male name in Scandinavian languages. Robin is used as a female and male name. Then there's combinations such as José María and María José, which require knowledge of Spanish naming conventions. Andrea is a male name in Italian. I think you might go by a list but there'd always be errors. -- Carsten Agger Magenta ApS Åbogade 15 8200 Århus N Tlf +45 2086 5010 http://www.magenta-aps.dk carst...@magenta-aps.dk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
Re: Determine gender from first name
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From: Demetrio Girardi
Sent: 01/25/12 03:49 AM
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Subject: Determine gender from first name
This is not a django-specific question, but I couldn't find anything useful on
the subject and have no better place to ask. Let's say I want to put "welcome
{{user.first_name}}" on top of my template. In many languages, "welcome" has to
be declined by gender. I have no use for the user's gender otherwise, so I
don't want to ask for it in the registration process. How can I go about this?
Is there a publicly available database of first names divided by language and
gender? A public web-service that guesstimates the gender? -- You received this
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What about the boy named Sue?
In some cultures, guessing "male" might be somewhat acceptable. On the other
hand, any guess could be wrong---and offensive. My advice is to ask. Perhaps
make it optional, with a default to one or the other; at least if they take
offense they can fix it.
Of course, you could reword your translation so as to get around this, but
that may be more difficult and awkward than it's worth.
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RE: Determine gender from first name
All depends on how many users you have and how accurate you want your data to be. If your language uses specific morphemes for women (usually non-european languages have marked feminine morphemes; male names and pronouns are not marked), then you could write a parser for these names. Yet I doubt your data will be any better than 90% accurate. Don't forget people construct virtual identities and often use loanwords. You could also parse their content (blogs, comments,... *is this legal?) and see which first person pronouns, verbs, etc. they use. If the latter are explicit feminine forms, use a feminine welcome. So, I would just work around the gender-specific welcome. Replace it somehow. Convince your client it is somehow spooky to directly address the visitor. Or, even better, add a gender category to your db and register form and convince your client that some day it will prove interesting for data mining purposes. greetings,djinja > Subject: Re: Determine gender from first name > From: law...@thenilgiris.com > To: django-users@googlegroups.com > Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:20:36 +0530 > > On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 09:49 +0100, Demetrio Girardi wrote: > > How can I go about this? Is there a publicly available database of > > first names divided by language and gender? A public web-service that > > guesstimates the gender? > > not possible in my opinion. There may be some languages where a name > *has* to have gender specific suffix. All the languages I know do not. > Maria, Rama, Krishna, for example are not gender specific. > -- > regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
Re: Determine gender from first name
Hi, If you are looking for a fuzzy solution, you can find it here https://github.com/sholiday/genderPredictor This should suit your purpose. It uses nltk package for predicting, but as Kenneth said, it won't be 100% perfect. You can expect 80-90% success. Hope this helps. Thanks, Anoop atm ___ Life is short, Live it hard. On 25 January 2012 15:20, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 09:49 +0100, Demetrio Girardi wrote: > > How can I go about this? Is there a publicly available database of > > first names divided by language and gender? A public web-service that > > guesstimates the gender? > > not possible in my opinion. There may be some languages where a name > *has* to have gender specific suffix. All the languages I know do not. > Maria, Rama, Krishna, for example are not gender specific. > -- > regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
Re: Determine gender from first name
On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 09:49 +0100, Demetrio Girardi wrote: > How can I go about this? Is there a publicly available database of > first names divided by language and gender? A public web-service that > guesstimates the gender? not possible in my opinion. There may be some languages where a name *has* to have gender specific suffix. All the languages I know do not. Maria, Rama, Krishna, for example are not gender specific. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
Re: Determine gender from first name
*I don't know if there are any databases or webservices available for the
purpose. But how would you handle the exceptions ?! Like if it does not
exist in the db, and common names used across genders ?!*
*
*
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Demetrio Girardi <
demetrio.gira...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is not a django-specific question, but I couldn't find anything
> useful on the subject and have no better place to ask.
>
> Let's say I want to put "welcome {{user.first_name}}" on top of my
> template. In many languages, "welcome" has to be declined by gender. I
> have no use for the user's gender otherwise, so I don't want to ask
> for it in the registration process.
>
> How can I go about this? Is there a publicly available database of
> first names divided by language and gender? A public web-service that
> guesstimates the gender?
>
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*Praveen Krishna R*
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Determine gender from first name
This is not a django-specific question, but I couldn't find anything
useful on the subject and have no better place to ask.
Let's say I want to put "welcome {{user.first_name}}" on top of my
template. In many languages, "welcome" has to be declined by gender. I
have no use for the user's gender otherwise, so I don't want to ask
for it in the registration process.
How can I go about this? Is there a publicly available database of
first names divided by language and gender? A public web-service that
guesstimates the gender?
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