Re: Determine gender from first name

2013-09-27 Thread Casper Strømgren
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

Re: Determine gender from first name

2012-01-27 Thread Carsten Agger
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.

Re: Determine gender from first name

2012-01-27 Thread Jonathan Paugh
- 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

RE: Determine gender from first name

2012-01-27 Thread walter capio
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

Re: Determine gender from first name

2012-01-25 Thread Anoop Thomas Mathew
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 ___

Re: Determine gender from first name

2012-01-25 Thread kenneth gonsalves
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

Re: Determine gender from first name

2012-01-25 Thread Praveen Krishna R
*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: >