Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name
On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 07:10:55PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> Debconf is on in Kosovo right now. If I had to work out Albanian
> gender mappings from names, I'd have no clue.
I decided to take a random name: the President of Kosovo. In Wikipedia I
see it is Vjosa Osmani, a name completely unfamiliar to me.
>>> print(d.get_gender(u"Vjosa"))
female
This time the guess happened to be correct.
>
> Then S. Indian - Malayalam character sets?? and names from a number of
> Indian languages then Israel and Hebrew/Arabic
> Taiwan had Chinese character sets and names
I tried various Hebrew names: names in Hebrew letters are always
unknown. My name (a rare one) is unknown even in Latin letters. However
some common Hebrew names in Latin letters are detected correctly.
I have not tried to do any proper sampling or experiment. Just a random
data point.
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