Re: [Dbpedia-dutch] [Dbpedia-discussion] gender extraction from Wikipedia

[Ruben V. <rub...@ug...>]

Hi Pablo,

Maybe first some context: I was asked by the Dutch DBpedia chapter to perform this work.
However, not everybody (including me) was aware of this existing code.
When I reported back, Dimitris send me a pointer to it.

> Do you think this could improve on the current Gender extractor that Max and I created?

Yeah; the ideas seem very similar; the main difference being my use of scores
(which are not necessary for English, but are for other languages like Dutch
 where some pronouns are homonyms of other words).

> We'd love to have it improved. Why don't you send a pull request over there?

So because I didn't know it existed;
and because I never contributed to a Scale project.
But the first obstacle has been overcome,
and the second one should be fairly easy :-)

It would probably be a good idea to cross-check first;
i.e., are the results consistent with Wikidata and/or the existing algorithm.
Is your result dataset available somewhere for 2014?
Mine is here: https://github.com/RubenVerborgh/DBpediaGenderResults

Best,

Ruben