2009 NameEthnicityClassificationfrom

• (Ambekar et al., 2009) ⇒ Anurag Ambekar, Charles Ward, Jahangir Mohammed, Swapna Male, and Steven Skiena. (2009). “Name-ethnicity Classification from Open Sources.” In: Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2009). doi:10.1145/1557019.1557032

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• Categories and Subject Descriptors: I.2.1 Applications and Expert Systems: Cartography.
• General Terms: Algorithms, Experimentation.

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

Abstract

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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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2009 NameEthnicityClassificationfrom	Anurag Ambekar Charles Ward Jahangir Mohammed Swapna Male Steven Skiena			Name-ethnicity Classification from Open Sources				10.1145/1557019.1557032