stroemgren / damegender

Gender detection toolkit from names written in python and bash

Name

Damegender is a gender detection tool from the name coded by David Arroyo MEnéndez (DAME)

Why?

• If you want to determine gender gap in Free Software projects or mailing lists.
• If you don't know the gender about a name
• If you want to research with statistics about why a name is related with males or females.
• If you want to use a free gender detection tool from a name from a command with open data.
• If you want to use the main solutions in gender detection (Genderize, Genderapi, Namsor, Nameapi and Gender Guesser) from a command.

DAMe Gender is for you!

Tell me about DAMe Gender papers

• Damegender:Writing and Comparing Gender Detection Tools (CEUR)
• Damegender: Towards an International and Free Dataset about Name, Gender and Frequency

More info?

• Damegender website
• Damegender pypi
• Damegender manual
• Damegender FAQ

Install

Installing Software

Possible Debian/Ubuntu dependencies

$ sudo apt-get install python3-nose-exclude python3-dev dict dict-freedict-eng-spa dict-freedict-spa-eng dictd

From sources

$ git clone https://github.com/davidam/damegender
$ cd damegender
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

With python package

$ python3 -m venv /tmp/d
$ cd /tmp/d
$ source bin/activate
$ pip install --upgrade pip
$ pip3 install damegender[all]
$ cd lib/python3.5/site-packages/damegender
$ python3 main.py David

To install APIs extra dependencies:

$ pip3 install damegender[apis]

To install mailing lists and repositories extra dependencies:

$ pip3 install damegender[mails_and_repositories]

To install all possible dependencies

$ pip3 install damegender[all]

Obtaining an api key

Currently you can need an api key from:

• Genderize
• Gender API
• NameAPI
• Namsor

You can execute:

$ python3 apikeyadd.py

To configure your api key

To remember that this idea is optional. Damegender doesn't need api keys to be executed.

Only api2gender.py or downloadjson.py is requiring to configure some API key from (Genderize, Namsor, GenderAPI, NameAPI)

The rest of commands is based in datasets released with licenses allowing to copy and to distribute freeely.

Configuring nltk

$ python3
>>> import nltk
>>> nltk.download('names')

Using

Hello! Guess a name!

$ python3 main.py Paula --total=es

Many commands! I want a faq!

English...

$ firefox https://github.com/davidam/damegender/blob/master/faq.org &

Português...

$ firefox https://github.com/davidam/damegender/blob/master/faq.br.org &

Papers

2023

• Un Dataset Internacional Acerca de Nombres, Género y Frecuencias en Damegender: Contando Hombres y Mujeres en Debian GNU/Linux

2020

• Damegender: Writing and Comparing Gender Detection Tools

Speeches, Seminars, Expressions of Support

2023

• OpenDataDay with grant (Argentina Buenos Aires, 2023)

2021

• Jornadas Online "Género y Ciencia de Datos en Deporte y Salud" (UOC, 2021)

• VI Congreso Internacional de Jóvenes Investigadores con Perspectiva de Género (Mesa 17 Tecnología y Género) (UC3M, 2021)

• Tecnologías I+D+I para la Igualdad (Mesas de Comunicaciones) (UC3M, 2021)

2020

• Seminar Series on Advanced Techniques & Tools for Software Evolution. (Eindhoven University of Technology, 2020)

• EsLibre (URJC, 2020)

2019

• Fifth Madrilenian Seminar on Software Research (URJC, 2019)

• Procesamiento de Lenguaje Natural con Python NLTK, Damegender como caso de uso. (Medialab Madrid, 2019)

• Software Freedom Day (URJC, 2019)

• Open South Code (Málaga, 2019)

• Group Retreat 2019 Workshop (URJC, 2019)

• PyBCN - Damegender: gender detection with NLTK and Scikit (Barcelona, 2019)

Beautiful Snakes

Dame Music

Listen music

License of Damegender

Damegender is released under GPLv3.

License of this document

Copyright (C) 2019 David Arroyo Menéndez Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in GNU Free Documentation License.