Abstract
This paper describes a method that detects gender of a person by his/her full name. While some approaches were proposed for English language, little has been done so far for Russian. We fill this gap and present a large-scale experiment on a dataset of 100,000 Russian full names from Facebook. Our method is based on three types of features (word endings, character \(n\)-grams and dictionary of names) combined within a linear supervised model. Experiments show that the proposed simple and computationally efficient approach yields excellent results achieving accuracy up to 96 %.
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This research was supported by Digital Society Laboratory LLC. We thank Kirill Shileev, Segei Objedkov and three anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments that significantly improved quality of this paper.
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Panchenko, A., Teterin, A. (2014). Detecting Gender by Full Name: Experiments with the Russian Language. In: Ignatov, D., Khachay, M., Panchenko, A., Konstantinova, N., Yavorsky, R. (eds) Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts. AIST 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 436. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12580-0_17
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