Nationality Classification Using Name Embeddings
Junting Ye, Shuchu Han, Yifan Hu, Barış Coşkun, Meizhu Liu, Hong Ying Qin, Steven Skiena · 2017
Nationality identification unlocks important demographic information, with many applications in biomedical and sociological research. Existing name-based nationality classifiers use name substrings as features and are trained on small, unrepresentative sets of labeled names, typically extracted from Wikipedia. As a result, these methods achieve limited performance and cannot support fine-grained classification.