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Name: Gender Guesser
Base name: genderguesser
Description: Guess the gender of Chinese names
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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
All time users: 312 users
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  Detailed description  
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.

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  Innovation Award  
PHP Programming Innovation award nominee
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 &#24352;&#23433;&#24179;) is from a man or woman...

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Plain text file charlex_gender.lex Data Default Lexicon
Plain text file genderguesser.lib.php Class Class
HTML file Readme_CN.htm Doc. Readme (Chinese)

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