Origin: NLP From Scratch: Classifying Names with a Character-Level RNN
Original data could be downloaded here
Current dataset is the filtered version of the original one. Such preprocessing steps have been done:
Only 5 languages is used (Russian, English, Japanese, Italian, German)
Surname duplicates dropped
UNICODE to ASCII normalization done
File saved as one csv
Downloading the original dataset and preparing the current one is in… See the full description on the dataset page:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/skolpin/surname_classification.
