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He said determine gender of a name, not of a person. Names (as part of the speech, not as people identifiers) have genders, grammar says so. Then one can argue
by lifeindeath 11y ago
He said determine gender of a name, not of a person. Names (as part of the speech, not as people identifiers) have genders, grammar says so. Then one can argue that 80% accuracy is not that much, but as first approach to machine learning is actually an interesting choice
- thecatspaw 11y agoA name can have multiple genders, for example Kim is male and female
- thaumasiotes 11y ago> Names (as part of the speech, not as people identifiers) have genders, grammar says so. You'd have to be speaking a language with gender marked on the noun; English is not such a language.
- Pilfer 11y agoblond/blonde actor/actress fiancé/fiancée widower/widow waiter/waitress
- thaumasiotes 11y agoNone of those are nouns with grammatical gender (semantic gender, yes. Grammatical gender, no). English is not such a language. Our pronouns are marked for gender; our nouns, including names, aren't.
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- thaumasiotes 11y agoIt's worth observing, as a fun fact, that English obeys a grammatical gender system which is not masculine/feminine: in modern American English, "who" is a pronoun for people (and anything being granted a sort of honorary personhood, like a pet), and "what" is a pronoun for non-people. The third-person pronouns follow the same distinction, with "it" being marked for nonpersonhood. This is a change from historical usage, and is why e.g. some people today will be offended by another person referring to their baby as "it".