An RSS Feed Analysis Application and Corpus Builder
Shereen Khoja · 2009
The RSS Feed Analysis Application and Corpus Builder is a software application that downloads given RSS feeds and compiles them into a corpus. The user simply supplies RSS feed addresses and the application automatically connects to the feeds, downloads them, and strips any formatting tags. The application incorporates the Expat ( ) XML parser 1 to identify the tags in the RSS feeds, and the users have the flexibility to define what they would like to keep and what is to be stripped. The application was tested on a project to analyse Middle Eastern Blogs. Thirty-seven blogs were downloaded using the RSS Feed Analyser and compiled into a corpus of 131,836 words. Both the RSS Feed Analyser and corpus are freely available under the GNU General Public Licence.