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Specifically, current tools focus on pronunciation (Pinyin) information, neglecting the fact that the latent connections between Pinyin and Chinese characters (Hanzi) behind convey critical information. As a first effort, we formulate the Pinyin name-gender guessing problem and design a Multi-Task Learning Network assisted by Knowledge Distillation that enables the Pinyin representations in the model to possess semantic features of Chinese characters and to learn gender information from Chinese character names. Our open-sourced method surpasses commercial name-gender guessing tools by 9.70% to 20.08% relatively, and also outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms.","doi":"10.24963/ijcai.2024/800","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2024/800","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2024/0800.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2024/800.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2024/bibtex/800","volume":{"slug":"2024","title":"Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2024","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2024/","year":2024,"location":"Jeju, Korea","dates":"3-9 August 2024","editors":"Kate Larson","isbn":"978-1-956792-04-1","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization","doi_prefix":"10.24963/ijcai.2024"},"section":"AI for Good","track":"AI for Good","number":800,"pages":{"first":7233,"last":7241},"keywords":["Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications: General","Humans and AI: General","Data Mining: General"],"videos":[],"references":[{"position":1,"raw":"[Ackermann and Zimmer, 2021] Tanja Ackermann and Christian Zimmer. 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