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I have worked on projects where I needed to extract firstnames and lastnames and if you want to use this dataset to extract names, here are some caveats: - firs
by aphroz 6y ago
I have worked on projects where I needed to extract firstnames and lastnames and if you want to use this dataset to extract names, here are some caveats:
- firstnames can be lastnames as well
- common words can be names as well
- some stop words can be names
- the order can change, you can write firstname, lastname or lastname, firstname
- Some names are as short as one letter
Using ML can be useful if you can separate people by origin or in more homogeneous population.
- stevesimmons 6y ago> Some names are as short as one letter I recently read a French political news story referring to O. It must be a misprint, I thought at first. But there is a French cabinet minister named Cedric O. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9dric_O https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9dric_O
- Uberphallus 6y agoA French colleague's last name is "Le". As in, the main stopword in French.
- williamdclt 6y agoOuch, that must lead to a lot of confusion. Especially given that "Le" is a fairly common surname prefix in France (eg Yann Le Cun, John Le Carré)
- seszett 6y agoIt's a very common Vietnamese surname so it's not unheard of in France though, it's often pronounced as "lé", maybe because it's the right pronunciation (I don't know) but in any case it makes it immediately different from the common word "le". Although when written, if that person has a typical French name like "Jean Le" there might be people who think it's been truncated indeed.
- Loranubi 6y agoNever read "Story of O" before? ;)
- aphroz 6y agoIndeed I was thinking about him, but he's probably not the only one