Jon Lennryd - 2017-07-27 12:35:38
Hi,
I like your brute-force solution, it can be used to preselect a gender-field in many cases.
Do you think it would be useful to have a self-updating array of names, I mean _if_ the user changes the guessed gender, the system will save the name with the user-selected gender?
That way the system would become better at guessing after some time.
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Another thread mentioned AI, I have been working with AI a little bit. What you need is a big data-set to train the AI. An AI could identify patterns as you have, I mean it could have a predefined set of patterns to identify "sounds" or common character-combinations.
It could then see that certain patterns or order of patterns always seem to belong to a certain gender.
This would also be a brute-force solution where it assigns a pattern or a set of patterns to a certain gender, but a bit more adaptive.
Example: "Carina" - The ending "a" is a good indicator for Swedish female names. The AI could detect this by purely comparing "facts" from the database of names, that lot's of names ending with 'a' is indeed stored as a female name.
...This is much like you have implemented it already! The difference would be that the AI could detect new patterns by itself. Otherwise, you will need to expand the list of rules you have forever.
