Gender Guesser
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This class attempts to guess the gender of Chinese names.
Generally speaking, a name is associated to a gender. A name can be male or female name. However it is difficult to guess the gender of names with neutral characters.
This class can lookup in a lexicon file the gender tendency of the characters used in a given name and apply an algorithm to guess the name gender.
Generally speaking, a name is associated to a gender. A name can be male or female name. However it is difficult to guess the gender of names with neutral characters.
This class can lookup in a lexicon file the gender tendency of the characters used in a given name and apply an algorithm to guess the name gender.
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 December 2005 Number 5 |
A name in Chinese may be male or female. However, in some cases it is difficult to guess the gender of a Chinese name. This class provides an approximate solution to guess the gender of a Chinese name by analyzing the characters that are used in the name. Manuel Lemos |
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| Name Gender Guesser | As I mentioned here, I’ve often wanted a way to know whether an email from a Chinese stranger (like 张安平) is from a man or woman... |
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 charlex_gender.lex |
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 Readme_CN.htm |
Doc. | Readme (Chinese) |
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