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When would this be useful?
by neolog 6y ago
When would this be useful?
- withinboredom 6y agoTesting data, or creating character names for a story.
- t0astbread 6y agoAs a first heuristic for finding names in text I would imagine
- muzani 6y agorandombabynames.io
- thomasfromcdnjs 6y agoI'm training models to generate fake names for fake resumes -> https://fake.jsonresume.org https://fake.jsonresume.org (When would this also be useful aha) Going to play with this data set.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- eudaimonia22 6y agoRemoval of Personally identifiable information (PII) from text data is the first obvious application that came to mind.
- riffraff 6y agoif you do that you will likely wipe out a lot of non-person-name data too, just think of common words used as last names, like "Brown"[0]. It seems to me if you have PII in text data you should treat the whole thing as PII. [0] although the dataset doesn't actually contain "Brown" as a valid last or first name, go figure.
- jfk13 6y agoYeah, calling it "exhaustive" is plainly ridiculous. (It does have "Black" and "Green", if you want alternative examples, though "White" is also missing...) Seems like just scraping author names from a few bibliographic databases could've filled in some of the more obvious holes.