Gender Inference using Statistical Name Characteristics in Twitter
Table 5: Evaluation results for the gender score on both datasets and the NamChar score in the Census data showing the resulting AUC, accuracy (ACC), recall (REC), and Kappa (K) values.
['Score', 'Dataset', 'AUC', 'ACC', 'REC', 'K']
The two datasets lead to similar results. A comparison of both datasets shows comparable results across all evaluation measures: For a paired-samples t-test (using SPSS version 23) we scaled the gender scores to the range of 0 to 1—using \nicefracs(n)x+5 for male and \nicefrac−s(n)x+5 for female names. The test shows that there is a slightly, but significant difference between both results, t(9,059)=6.10,p