Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name
On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 06:08:16PM +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2022, at 16:57, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 01:48:17PM +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote:
> >> Take Misha/Miša/Миша or Petya/Peťa/Петя. In Russian tradition, these are
> >> very likely masculine names, from Mikhail and Petr.
>
> > If only this piece of software had a distinction between "almost always
> > male", "leaning male", "neutral", "leaning female", "almost always
> > female"... Oh wait, it does!
> > Precisely for the reason you mention.
>
> No, it does not and cannot, since some names are almost always male in one culture but almost always female in another one.
In other words, if you don't pick a culture, the _global_ dataset (ie, the
default one) must not assume either. It takes a lot of work to prepare
such a database, that's why this package is good to have.
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