NAME
Text::GenderFromName - Guess the gender of an American first name.
SYNOPSIS
use Text::GenderFromName;
print gender("Jon"); # prints 'm'
DESCRIPTION
This module provides gender(), which takes a name and returns one of three values: 'm' for male, 'f' for female, or undef for unknown.
INSTALLATION
To install this module type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
DEPENDENCIES
This module requires:
Text::DoubleMetaphone
CHANGES
Version 0.30 is a significant departure from previous versions. By default, version 0.30 uses the U.S. Social Security Administration's "Most Popular Names of the 1980's" list of 1001 male first names and 1013 female first names. See CAVEATS in the pod documentation for details on this list.
Version 0.30 also allows for arbitrary female and male hashed lists to be provided at run-time, and includes several built-ins to provide matches based on exclusivity, weight, metaphones, and both version 0.20 and version 0.10 regexp-style matching. The user can also specify additional match subroutines and change the match order at run-time.
AUTHOR
Originally by Jon Orwant <orwant@readable.com>, v0.30 by Eamon Daly <eamon@eamondaly.com>.
This is an adaptation of an 8/91 awk script by Scott Pakin in the December 91 issue of Computer Language Monthly.
Small contributions by Andrew Langmead and John Strickler. Thanks to Bob Baldwin, Matt Bishop, Daniel Klein, and the U.S. SSA for their lists of names.