Thursday, August 21, 2003
The Gender Genie
"Inspired by an article in The New York Times Magazine, the Gender Genie uses an algorithm developed by Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology, to predict the gender of an author. Read more about the algorithm at nature.com".
Clever idea but not too successful so far -- it's only been correct 44.6% of the time. I submitted three samples, all by male authors (including me). It said "Female" each time. At least the response is funny "Well, he writes like a girl". According to Koppel and Argamon, the algorithm should predict the gender of the author approximately 80% of the time.
Clever idea but not too successful so far -- it's only been correct 44.6% of the time. I submitted three samples, all by male authors (including me). It said "Female" each time. At least the response is funny "Well, he writes like a girl". According to Koppel and Argamon, the algorithm should predict the gender of the author approximately 80% of the time.
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