CHI: Gender

[jofish22]

So after seeing Nick's CHI'06 Geographical Distribution I got interested in other statistical work with the CHI archive. (Rant: fer chrissake, ACM, could you make things be available in any other way than raw HTML? Even some bloody structured HTML would be a step up. I shouldn't be searching for strong tags in an attempt to find names. Get your

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[dr_tectonic]

How about using baby-name lists? They're gender-segregated, and there are a number of sites with lists for Hindi names and Yiddish names and on and on. You might have to do some screen-scraping, but you could probably get more than 1k for each gender in very short order.

For example, http://www.20000-names.com sez that "Hiroshi" is a boy's name...

[jofish22]

Sooper-dooper idea, Dr. Tectonic! I'm on it. I've ripped www.20000-names.com (and that site is INCREDIBLE, by the way. Mad respect to them.) and I'm starting to parse it now.