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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=宋体><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:SimSun'>Hi all Corpora Members,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=宋体><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:SimSun'> Now I am
studying on Chinese Name Gender Recognition. The input is a Chinese name. The
output is the corresponding gender. I used decision trees method. But finally,
the accuracy is only about 70%.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=宋体><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:SimSun'> Do you know any
other method which can achieve higher accuracy? And is there somebody has done
any similar research?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=宋体><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:SimSun'> Thanks a lot!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:SimSun'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=宋体><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:SimSun'>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=宋体><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:SimSun'>Bill_Lang(Jun Lang): Ph.D Candidate<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=宋体><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:SimSun'>Information Retrieval Laboratory<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=宋体><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:SimSun'>Harbin Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=宋体><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:SimSun'>Mail: <a
href="mailto:bill_lang@gmail.com">bill_lang@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=宋体><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:SimSun'>Homepage: <a
href="http://ir.hit.edu.cn/~bill_lang">http://ir.hit.edu.cn/~bill_lang</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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