Null PointerA brilliant (sic) coalesce of Technology (where the emphasis is on Java), Internet, Blogging, Indic-blogging, current-affairs, politics, entertainment industry and topics that concern India.Hindi in that Cloud- August 30, 2005 In my previous post I had discussed that Tagcloud was unable to generate the Tagcloud for Hindi blogdom since the Yahoo term extraction API doesn't recognize non-English characters yet. I then decided on implementing it myself. This is how I do it:Parse the Hindi blog group RSS FeedGet the Words ignoring the very commonly used onesInsert the data (word and frequency of occurrence) in database The data from database is available as XML and as this JSP (see the frame below for a glimpse). If you..http://www.jroller.com/debashish/entry/hindi_in_that_cloud TagCloud, if it could work with Hindi- August 6, 2005 Tagcloud seems interesting; tells you the crux of the conversations in blogdom pretty much like Technorati tags. There are 80+ Hindi blogs now and I thought why not sport one such cloud for these blogs at Chittha Vishwa, alas the effort failed. The onus fell on the Yahoo Term Extraction API that as of now only recognizes English words. The speed with which terms are extracted from even large amount of text, I tested it here. Try entering some Hindi text and as you may see it is unable to...http://www.jroller.com/debashish/entry/tagcloud_if_it_could_work |