名字不僅僅反映了家族傳承的輩份，更承載了父母的期許，而在現今社群網站的使用非常普遍，使用者們在社群網站發表個人文章或經營粉絲頁並與他人互動已是日常生活的一部份，這些文章也成為重要的研究資料來源。然而網站對於隱私的保護越來越嚴格，當要分析公眾的頁面上留言者的組成時往往會面臨只能知道留言者的名字的窘況，此研究將能幫助探知留言者的性別與年齡層，以更準確的進行如意向分析等等研究。

本研究針對台灣人所取用的中文名字進行分析，透過中華文化中在取名上常參考的算命規則、名字所承載的意象與意涵、家族中的輩份關係、名字的唸法等等可能的特徵，我們以此去估計台灣人之名字的年齡層以及其性別，更進一步使用了一個比較名字間的年齡大小的架構，以此來降估計年齡之誤差。

我們的結果顯示，透過使用名字涵義的特性以及考量算命等特徵後能夠有效預測性別，而再搭配上比較式的預估架構，則能夠進行更為接近名字之真實年代的猜測。

The name itself could carry a lot of meaning, the such as expectation from their parents and the significance of the times.
This research focus on estimating the age-interval of Taiwanese name. Through the observation of Taiwanese culture to give a name, we customize the feature and use word-embedding to avoid the problem of huge combination of Taiwanese given name. We further use the comparative framework to reduce the predict error.

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