Ginzo Villamayor, María JoséFerreira Alcoforado, LucianeDos Santos, João Paulo MartinsLevy, ArielCelso Longo, OrlandoLópez Linares, Juan2024-02-212024-02-212024-02-19Ginzo-Villamayor, M.J. (2024). Classification of Galician surnames with Web Scraping. In: L. Ferreira Alcoforado, et al. (eds.). Aplicações em R : encurtando distâncias nas ciências. Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Zootecnia e Engenharia de Alimentos. ISBN: 9786587023397 (pp. 223-238)http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32875Linguistics considers different classifications of surnames according to their motivation, morphology or semantics. In the case of Galician surnames, Boullón- Agrelo (2008) proposes a classification based on three main groups: appellatives, patronymics and toponymics. In order to classify Galician surnames in these three categories, Web Scraping techniques were used, i.e. a process of extracting content and data from websites, scraping official Galician, Spanish and even Portuguese language dictionaries. These techniques were very useful, especially for appellatives.engAtribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/SurnamesGaliciaWeb ScrapingDirectional Highest Density RegionsClustering directional209book partopen access