Rethnicity: Predicting Ethnicity from Names

09/19/2021

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by   Fangzhou Xie, et al.

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I provide an R package, , for predicting ethnicity from names. I use the Bidirectional LSTM as the model and Florida Voter Registration as training data. Special care is given for the accuracy of minority groups, by adjusting the imbalance in the dataset. I also compare the availability, accuracy, and performance with other solutions for predicting ethnicity from names. Sample code snippet and analysis of the DIME dataset are also shown as applications of the package.