RAA - hispanic

hispanic_origin / 0.0.9

Short description:

Hispanic origin test for family names

Category:

Library/Linguistics

Status:

stable

Created:

2007-02-21 03:59:44 GMT

Last update:

2008-10-17 12:36:46 GMT

Owner:

Jordi Bunster (Projects of this owner)

Homepage:

http://bunster.org/code/hispanic_origin/hispanic_origin.html

Download:

http://bunster.org/code/hispanic_origin/hispanic_origin.rb.txt

License:

PublicDomain

Dependency:

None

Description:

A simple Ruby implementation of the process described in the U.S. Census Bureau's Technical Working Paper No. 13, "Building a Spanish Surname List for the 1990's—A New Approach to An Old Problem" (7.1.3, Orthographic Structure of Surnames).

Context is key to good results: use this on a list of Italian or Portuguese family names, and you'll get mostly false positives. Use on a population you know to be mostly of hispanic and non-latin family names, and you'll get a pretty good guess.

Usage:

load 'hispanic_origin.rb'

'Delgado'.hispanic? => true
'Cottman'.hispanic? => false

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