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
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 ?!*
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In general this would not be possible.
- Original Message -
From: Demetrio Girardi
Sent: 01/25/12 03:49 AM
To: django-users@googlegroups.com
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
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
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
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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
*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:
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