On 7/18/12, Tom Morris <tom(a)tommorris.org> wrote:
Funny you should mention DBpedia. DBpedia can only
work based on the things
in Wikipedia and given that we don't include gender in Wikipedia info boxes
or category structures, there won't be anything in DBpedia.
But, DBpedia links into Freebase, and Freebase has been running a game
through the 'Freebase apps' platform called "Genderizer". This allows
people
to select either from a queue of real or fictional people and set their
gender based on the lead from their Wikipedia article. While this isn't a
reliable source to integrate the information back into Wikipedia, for the
purposes of doing a rough study into the gender ratios of Wikipedia articles
about people (and fictional people), Freebase may do what you want.
Interesting. This could be documented somewhere in Wikipedia's
documentation - is it? And do they cover famous animals as well?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Olav
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