2009 NameEthnicityClassificationfrom

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Ethnicity Detection, Name Classification, News Analysis, Social Science Research

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The problem of ethnicity identification from names has a variety of important applications, including biomedical research, demographic studies, and marketing. Here we report on the development of an ethnicity classifier where all training data is extracted from public, non-confidential (and hence somewhat unreliable) sources. Our classifier uses hidden Markov models (HMMs) and decision trees to classify names into 13 cultural/ethnic groups with individual group accuracy comparable accuracy to earlier binary (e.g., Spanish/non-Spanish) classifiers. We have applied this classifier to over 20 million names from a large-scale news corpus, identifying interesting temporal and spatial trends on the representation of particular cultural/ethnic groups.

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 AuthorvolumeDate ValuetitletypejournaltitleUrldoinoteyear
2009 NameEthnicityClassificationfromAnurag Ambekar
Charles Ward
Jahangir Mohammed
Swapna Male
Steven Skiena
Name-ethnicity Classification from Open SourcesKDD-2009 Proceedings10.1145/1557019.15570322009