russiannames 1.0

Russian names parser, gender identification and processing tools

# Russian Names

russiannames is a Python 3 library dedicated to parse Russian names, surnames and midnames, identify person gender by fullname and how name is written. It uses MongoDB as backend to speed-up name parsing.

## Documentation

Documentation is built automatically and can be found on https://russiannames.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

## Installation

To install Python library use pip install russiannames via pip or python setup.py install

To use database you need MongoDB instance. Unpack db_data_bson.zip file from https://github.com/datacoon/russiannames/blob/master/data/bson/db_dump_bson.zip

and use mongorestore command to restore names database with 3 collections: names, surnames and midnames

## Features

Database of names used for identification

• 375449 surnames - collection: surnames

• 32134 first names - collection: names

• 48274 midnames - collection: midnames

Detailed database statistics by gender and collection

collection| total | males|females|universal or unidentified |

— | — | — | — | — |

names | 32134 | 19297 | 8278 | 1196 |

midnames | 48274 | 30114 | 16143 | 0 |

surnames | 375274 | 124662 | 111534 | 38827 |

Supports 12 formats of Russian full names writing style

Format | Example | Description |

—— | ————– | ———— |

f | Ольга | only first name |

s | Петров | only surname |

Fs | О. Сидорова | first letter of first name and full surname |

sF | Николаев С. | full surname and first letter of surname |

sf | Абрамов Семен | full surname and full first name |

fs | Соня Камиуллина | full first name and full surname |

fm | Иван Петрович | full first name and full middlename |

SFM | М.Д.М. | first letters of surname, first name, middlename |

FMs | А.Н. Егорова | first letters of first and middle name and full furname |

sFM | Николаенко С.П. | full surname and first letters of first and middle names |

sfM | Петракова Зинаида М. | full surname, first name and first letter of middle name |

sfm | Казаков Ринат Артурович | full name as surname, first name and middle name |

fms | Светлана Архиповна Волкова | full name as first name, middle name and surname |

Supports names with following ethnics identification

9 ethnic types in names, surnames and middle names supported

key | name (en) | name (rus)

—- | ——— | ———-

arab | Arabic | Арабское

arm | Armenian | Армянское

geor | Georgian | Грузинское

germ | German | Немецкие

greek | Greek | Греческие

jew | Jew | Еврейские

polsk | Polish | Польские

slav | Slavic (Russian) | Славянские

tur | Turkic | Тюркские (тюркоязычные)

## Limitations

• very rare names, surnames or middlenames could be not parsed

• ethnic identification is still on early stage

## Speed optimization

• preconfigured and preindexed MongoDb collections used

## Usage and Examples

### Parse name and identify gender

Parses names and returns: format, surname, first name, middle name, parsed (True/False) and gender

>>> from russiannames.parser import NamesParser
>>> parser = NamesParser()
>>> parser.parse('Нигматуллин Ринат Ахметович')
{'format': 'sfm', 'sn': 'Нигматуллин', 'fn': 'Ринат', 'mn': 'Ахметович', 'gender': 'm', 'text': 'Нигматуллин Ринат Ахметович', 'parsed': True}
>>> parser.parse('Петрова C.Я.')
{'format': 'sFM', 'sn': 'Петрова', 'fn_s': 'C', 'mn_s': 'Я', 'gender': 'f', 'text': 'Петрова C.Я.', 'parsed': True}

Gender field could have one of following values:

• m: Male

• f: Female

• u: Unknown / unidentified

• -: Impossible to identify

### Ethnic identification (experimental) Parses surname, first name and middle name and tries to identify person ethic affilation of the person

>>> from russiannames.parser import NamesParser
>>> parser = NamesParser()
>>> parser.classify('Нигматуллин', 'Ринат', 'Ахметович')
{'ethnics': ['tur'], 'gender': 'm'}
>>> parser.classify('Алексеева', 'Ольга', 'Ивановна')
{'ethnics': ['slav'], 'gender': 'f'}

## Supported languages * Russian

## Requirements * pymongo * click

## Acknowledgements