Gender Inference of Wikipedia Article

Team Members

• William Hatfield

• Uday Panjala

• Utkarshani Jaimini

Goals of the Project

• Provide a proof of function or non-function when inferring gender from wiki text

• Provide some insightful research as to what types of words in text effect inference

Requirements

• Text parser for wiki pages source text, extend existing wiki parsers

• Machine learning from those pages using some NLP

• Metric for determining how similar an entity may be

Milestones

• 14 March: Have a functioning text parser for our requirements

• 21 March: Have a dataset compiled for machine learning (male & female)

• 28 March: Have a result set and begin tuning the machine learning

• 04 April: Begin different metrics (nouns, verbs, pronouns, etc)