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  • 1.  inferring person's gender from their names?

    Posted 12-10-2020 11:55
    What are the folks' experience in using existing NLP tools to figure out person's sex/gender from their names (and possibly in general from their webpages)? I am involved in a web scraping project focused on STEM faculty, and we want to specifically make sure we cover enough women.

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    Stanislav Kolenikov
    Principal Scientist
    Abt Associates
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  • 2.  RE: inferring person's gender from their names?

    Posted 12-11-2020 12:39
    That is a fascinating project, and I hope you will share the results.

    There is an author named Kernot who has tried to develop a relationship between gender and frequency of pronoun use that may interest you.

    Kernot, D. (2018).  Can three pronouns discriminate identity in writing?  In R. Sarker et al. (Eds.), Data and decision sciences in action -  Proceedings of the Australian Society for Operations Research Conference 2016.  New York: Springer.

    Good luck.

    Jerry Tuttle
    Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design



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    Jerome Tuttle
    Adjunct instructor
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