Advance Gender Prediction Tool of First Names and its Use in Analysing Gender Disparity in Computer Science in the UK, Malaysia and China
Publication type
conference paper
Publication date
2018
Author(s)
Zhao, H.
Kamareddine, F.
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Language
English
Discipline(s)
Abstract
Global gender disparity in science is an unsolved problem. Predicting gender has an important role in analysing the gender gap through online data. We study this problem within the UK, Malaysia and China. We enhance the accuracy of an existing gender prediction tools of names that can predict the sex of Chinese characters and English characters simultaneously and with more precision. During our research, we found that there is no free gender forecasting tool to predict an arbitrary number of names. We addressed this shortcoming by providing a tool that can predict an arbitrary number of names with free requests. We demonstrate our tool through a number of experimental results. We show that this tool is better than other gender prediction tools of names for analysing social problems with big data. In our approach, lists of data can be dynamically processed and the results of the data can be displayed with a dynamic graph. We present experiments of using this tool to analyse the gender disparity in computer science in the UK, Malaysia and China. © 2017 IEEE.
Part of
Proc. - Int. Conf. Comput. Sci. Comput. Intell., CSCI
ISBN
978-153862652-8
Pagination
222-227
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