Genni + Ethnea for the Author-ity 2009 dataset

Dataset

Description

Prepared by Vetle Torvik 2018-04-15

The dataset comes as a single tab-delimited ASCII encoded file, and should be about 717MB uncompressed.

• How was the dataset created?
First and last names of authors in the Author-ity 2009 dataset was processed through several tools to predict ethnicities and gender, including

Ethnea+Genni as described in:

<i>Torvik VI, Agarwal S. Ethnea -- an instance-based ethnicity classifier based on geocoded author names in a large-scale bibliographic database. International Symposium on Science of Science March 22-23, 2016 - Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA.
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/88927</i>

<i>Smith, B., Singh, M., & Torvik, V. (2013). A search engine approach to estimating temporal changes in gender orientation of first names. Proceedings Of The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference On Digital Libraries, (JCDL 2013 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries), 199-208. doi:10.1145/2467696.2467720</i>

EthnicSeer: http://singularity.ist.psu.edu/ethnicity
<i>Treeratpituk P, Giles CL (2012). Name-Ethnicity Classification and Ethnicity-Sensitive Name Matching. Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 1141-1147). AAAI-12. Toronto, ON, Canada</i>

SexMachine 0.1.1: <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/SexMachine/">https://pypi.org/project/SexMachine</a>

First names, for some Author-ity records lacking them, were harvested from outside bibliographic databases.

&bull; The code and back-end data is periodically updated and made available for query at <a href ="http://abel.ischool.illinois.edu">Torvik Research Group</a>

&bull; What is the format of the dataset?
The dataset contains 9,300,182 rows and 10 columns
1. auid: unique ID for Authors in Author-ity 2009 (PMID_authorposition)
2. name: full name used as input to EthnicSeer)
3. EthnicSeer: predicted ethnicity; ARA, CHI, ENG, FRN, GER, IND, ITA, JAP, KOR, RUS, SPA, VIE, XXX
4. prop: decimal between 0 and 1 reflecting the confidence of the EthnicSeer prediction
5. lastname: used as input for Ethnea+Genni
6. firstname: used as input for Ethnea+Genni
7. Ethnea: predicted ethnicity; either one of 26 (AFRICAN, ARAB, BALTIC, CARIBBEAN, CHINESE, DUTCH, ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, GREEK, HISPANIC, HUNGARIAN, INDIAN, INDONESIAN, ISRAELI, ITALIAN, JAPANESE, KOREAN, MONGOLIAN, NORDIC, POLYNESIAN, ROMANIAN, SLAV, THAI, TURKISH, VIETNAMESE) or two ethnicities (e.g., SLAV-ENGLISH), or UNKNOWN (if no one or two dominant predictons), or TOOSHORT (if both first and last name are too short)
8. Genni: predicted gender; 'F', 'M', or '-'
9. SexMac: predicted gender based on third-party Python program (default settings except case_sensitive=False); female, mostly_female, andy, mostly_male, male)
10. SSNgender: predicted gender based on US SSN data; 'F', 'M', or '-'
Date made availableApr 19 2018
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Keywords

  • Androgyny
  • Bibliometrics
  • Textual markers
  • Search engine
  • Semantic orientation
  • Data mining
  • Gender
  • Temporal prediction

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