Predicting Gender by First Name Using Character-level Machine Learning (2021-06-18T00:00:00.000000Z)

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The results indicate that the gender prediction can be performed from the feature extraction strategy looking at the names as a set of strings, with some models accurately predict gender in more than 95% of the cases.

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Predicting gender by the first name is not a simple task. In many applications, especially in the natural language processing (NLP) field, this task may be necessary, mainly when considering foreign names. In this paper, we examined and implemented several machine learning algorithms, such as extra trees, KNN, Naive Bayes, SVM, random forest, gradient boosting, light GBM, logistic regression, ridge classifier, and deep neural network models, such as MLP, RNN, GRU, CNN, and BiLSTM, to classify gender through the first name. A dataset of Brazilian names is used to train and evaluate the models. We analyzed the accuracy, recall, precision, f1 score, and confusion matrix to measure the models' performances. The results indicate that the gender prediction can be performed from the feature extraction strategy looking at the names as a set of strings. Some models accurately predict gender in more than 95% of the cases. The recurrent models overcome the feedforward models in this binary classification problem.

Authors

Rosana C. B. Rego

1 papers

V. M. Silva

1 papers

V. M. Fernandes

1 papers

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Analysis of the most common machine learning algorithms applied to the binary classiﬁcation problem as well as performance comparison with deep neural networks models

and predicted gender with learning models based on the a systematic comparison between them. We also included other metrics beyond

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