[Corpora-List] Request People Name Corpus (English)

[Amaç Herdağdelen]

Hello,

I wasn't aware of Kantrowitz's Names Corpus so very recently (like two  
days ago), I compiled a list of common English (American) names based on  
the data provided by US Census Bureau (1990 census) and Social Security  
Agency (popular baby names between 1960 and 2010).

I release these datasets and the code on GitHub. I also provide another  
script which helps you to guess the gender of an unknown name X by  
searching for phrases like "X himself", "X herself", "X and his *", "X and  
her *" via Yahoo! BOSS API and comparing the hit counts. It's a very naive  
method but I find its performance quite acceptable for my purposes.

The project is here: http://github.com/amacinho/Name-Gender-Guesser

Feel free to use and improve it!

Amaç Herdağdelen

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:18:27 +0200, Nathan Schneider <nathan at cmu.edu>  
wrote:

> Mark Kantrowitz's Names Corpus distributed with NLTK sounds like what
> you're looking for (at least for English):
> http://nltk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/nltk_data/index.xml
>
> Nathan
>
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Waleed Oransa <woransa at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> I am looking for People Name Corpus in English, categorized by gender.  
>> do
>> you know of such one exists? Some web sites have such data (e.g. baby  
>> names,
>> etc.) so I thought to check with you first since it needs some effort to
>> extract the names from the web beside possible copyright issue. I  
>> appreciate
>> your help.
>> of course, similar parallel corpus is fine, especially English-Arabic  
>> one.
>> Thank you!
>> Waleed
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