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Introducing... The Gender Guesser!

Posted 05-13-2009 at 08:39 PM by depp
Updated 05-13-2009 at 08:44 PM by depp

This website has a cool algorithm that was the result of a university research project whose goal was to evaluate the gender of an author. It's not 100% accurate but with larger amounts of text it gets scary close most of the time.

Quote:

In 2003, a team of researchers from the Illinois Institute of Technology and Bar-Ilan University in Israel (Shlomo Argamon, Moshe Koppel, Jonathan Fine, and Anat Rachel Shimoni) developed a method to estimate gender from word usage. Their paper described a Bayesian network where weighted word frequencies and parts of speech could be used to estimate the gender of an author. Their approach made a distinction between fiction and non-fiction writing styles.

Javascript version:
http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.html

Another version:
http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php

This could spark a little debate!

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Interesting. Sorry, wish I can offer something more than just that one word.

Posted 05-13-2009 at 08:42 PM by lokelake
They had different results. O.o

Posted 05-13-2009 at 08:51 PM by LilAngel
I put an essay I did into both... They both said I was a girl >_<

Posted 05-13-2009 at 10:10 PM by SpartanWeasel

	It gave me funny results. With fewer words into the box (300 or so), it registered me as male (both formal and informal); but with more words (700 or so), it registered me as male informal and female formal. My percentiles were around 60% male informal, and 50% female informal.
	Posted 05-13-2009 at 10:23 PM by interesting

	Female = 1075 Male = 634 Difference = -441; 37.09% Verdict: FEMALE Words: 441 (NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.) Female Score: 490 Male Score: 471 The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!
	Posted 05-14-2009 at 08:19 AM by BettyBoop

I'm scared. It didn't only tell me I'm female, it even said I was European o.O
How did it know?!

Posted 05-14-2009 at 08:54 AM by Kitten

	Okay, I tried out the past ten installments from Pam's Story: Weak Male / Weak Female Weak Male / Weak Male Weak Female Weak Male Weak Female Male / Weak Female Weak Male / Weak Female Weak Female Weak Male Female I'm a wierd writer, I guess. It seems to think I'm a European androgye.
	Posted 10-05-2009 at 03:47 AM by Officelover

Also, I just did A New Society. Here's what I got.

Intro:
WF / WM
John:
WF / WF
WM / WM
WM / WM
WM / WF

HANNAH:
WF / WM
WM / WM
M / M
WM / WM
WM / WM
WF / WF

ARIEL:
M / WF
M / M
M / F
WF / WF
WM / WM

Okay. First of all, I am NOT European. Second of all, either this thing doesn't work, or I write in ways that are different than how it usually processes. I seem to get female a lot too- oh well. I wouldn't mind being either European or Female, so why not? Maybe my subconcious writes in weird ways?

Posted 10-05-2009 at 04:02 AM by Officelover Officelover is offline

	Interesting. Sorry, wish I can offer something more than just that one word.
	Posted 05-13-2009 at 08:42 PM by lokelake

	They had different results. O.o
	Posted 05-13-2009 at 08:51 PM by LilAngel

	I put an essay I did into both... They both said I was a girl >_<
	Posted 05-13-2009 at 10:10 PM by SpartanWeasel

	I'm scared. It didn't only tell me I'm female, it even said I was European o.O How did it know?!
	Posted 05-14-2009 at 08:54 AM by Kitten

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