How accurate are gender detection tools in predicting the gender for Chinese names? A study with 20,000 given names in Pinyin format.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We recently showed that the gender detection tools NamSor, Gender API, and Wiki-Gendersort accurately predicted the gender of individuals with Western given names. Here, we aimed to evaluate the performance of these tools with Chinese given names in Pinyin format.

Methods

We constructed two datasets for the purpose of the study. File #1 was created by randomly drawing 20,000 names from a gender-labeled database of 52,414 Chinese given names in Pinyin format. File #2, which contained 9,077 names, was created by removing from File #1 all unisex names that we were able to identify (i.e., those that were listed in the database as both male and female names). We recorded for both files the number of correct classifications (correct gender assigned to a name), misclassif

SUBMITTER: Sebo P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9014919 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature