I m trying to filter names out of text blobs. Currently I m just generating a words list and filtering it by hand but I ve got ~8k words to go so I m looking for a better way. I could grab a dictionary and filter them out but that would cull names like smith and cliff.
What I need is either of the following:
I figure between them, I can do a combined blacklist/whitelist to get what I need.
US Census name list: http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/
That should get you one angle on the problem, anyway.
edited changed URL, per comment below about page moving. Nobody believes in HTTP 302 anymore?
From a post I found at Quora:
CMU s NELL project has collected a huge list of proper nouns from the web and categorized them by type. You can browse online at: NELL KnowledgeBase Browser and download the data at: Resources & Data.
Web scraping the results for, say, personUS seems more efficient than what I did, which is extracting a list of names from phrases tagged as "person" in their big tab-delimited CSV file. Either way you ll be using regex.
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