Abstract
This paper presents an approach to identify gender from the first name of users. The name identification is carried out by identifying similarities from male and female gender names. 300 male and female gender student names belonging to Hindu religion are chosen for the current research work.Decision Tree induction (J48) is used to categorized names into male and female class. The J48 produce 96% accuracy for 40 % training and 60% testing percentage split.
Highlights
Indian Culture refers collectively thousands of distinct and unique cultures of all religions and communities in India
We found differences in names of male and female genders religion wise
Many of the Industries interested to find the gender wise target groups online. Until this data is used for different purposes like ad targeting, gender wise research. Use of this identification will be extended for other various purposes like we can use this data for targeting the gender wise groups for health awareness campaign for commonly found diseases in male and female groups,Women Empowerment and female gender will be targeted to aware about laws related to Womensafetyand Sexual harassment, can be used to aware the government schemes for targeted groups
Summary
Indian Culture refers collectively thousands of distinct and unique cultures of all religions and communities in India. This makes India rich and make different from other countries. We found differences in names of male and female genders religion wise. Gender identification is used for user segmentation, targeting advertisements and gender wise research analysis. This can be done by using first names of users. Many of the Industries interested to find the gender wise target groups online. Until this data is used for different purposes like ad targeting, gender wise research. Use of this identification will be extended for other various purposes like we can use this data for targeting the gender wise groups for health awareness campaign for commonly found diseases in male and female groups,Women Empowerment and female gender will be targeted to aware about laws related to Womensafetyand Sexual harassment, can be used to aware the government schemes for targeted groups
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