Re: [Wikidata-l] Application: sexing people by name/research gender bias

2013-10-14 Thread Klein,Max
Hi all, First of all I think this is fantastic research. It goes to show, it's not just properties that we can correlate, but also the Labels, Aliases, Sitelinks, and the connections between each field. I would like to point out, as Markus does in his discussion - the relative

Re: [Wikidata-l] Application: sexing people by name/research gender bias

2013-10-14 Thread Tom Morris
Naming patterns change over time and geography. If you're interested in the gender of current day authors, you should probably constrain your name sampling to the same timeframe. There's an app that works of the Freebase data here: http://namegender.freebaseapps.com/ It also has an API that

Re: [Wikidata-l] Application: sexing people by name/research gender bias

2013-10-14 Thread Markus Krötzsch
On 14/10/13 18:18, Tom Morris wrote: Naming patterns change over time and geography. If you're interested in the gender of current day authors, you should probably constrain your name sampling to the same timeframe. I think geography has a much bigger impact than time here. Unfortunately,