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Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining table of contents

Paris, France

SESSION: Research track papers table of contents

Pages 49-58

Year of Publication: 2009

ISBN:978-1-60558-495-9

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Anurag Ambekar	Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Charles Ward	Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Jahangir Mohammed	Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Swapna Male	Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Steven Skiena	Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGKDD: ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery in Data
SIGMOD: ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The problem of ethnicity identification from names has a variety of important applications, including biomedical research, demographic studies, and marketing. Here we report on the development of an ethnicity classifier where all training data is extracted from public, non-confidential (and hence somewhat unreliable) sources. Our classifier uses hidden Markov models (HMMs) and decision trees to classify names into 13 cultural/ethnic groups with individual group accuracy comparable accuracy to earlier binary (e.g., Spanish/non-Spanish) classifiers. We have applied this classifier to over 20 million names from a large-scale news corpus, identifying interesting temporal and spatial trends on the representation of particular cultural/ethnic groups.

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