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

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On 25 January 2012 15:20, kenneth gonsalves <lawgon@thenilgiris.com> 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.
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