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license: cc-by-sa-4.0
language:
- bs
tags:
- bosnian
- corpus
- nlp
- information-theory
- entropy
- language-modeling
pretty_name: Bosnian Corpus v1.0 (cleaned)
size_categories:
- 1B<n<10B
---
# Bosnian Corpus v1.0 (cleaned)
This dataset provides a cleaned and genre-annotated corpus of contemporary Bosnian,
designed for quantitative analysis of language entropy, “language energy”,
and modern NLP tasks.
The canonical release of this corpus is published on Zenodo:
**DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17757098**
---
## Corpus composition
The corpus is built from three publicly available resources released via the CLARIN.SI repository:
1. **Sarajevo Corpus of SMS Messages in Bosnian 1.1**
2. **Bosnian Web Corpus bsWaC 1.1**
3. **Bosnian Web Corpus CLASSLA-web.bs 1.0**
All sources were converted to plain text, cleaned, normalized, partially deduplicated,
and merged into a single consistent dataset.
---
## Size and statistics
- **Total size:** ~6.18 GB (≈ 6,182,905,888 bytes)
- **Lines:** ~46,258,935
- **Tokens:** ~942,515,845
---
## Genre structure
The web portion of the corpus is organized into the following “super-genres”:
- News
- Opinion
- Forum / Chat
- Info / HowTo
- Legal / Administrative
- Literature
- Ads / Promo
- Mix / Other
For each super-genre, a separate text file is provided,
along with one **global file** concatenating all genres.
The global file is intended for entropy estimation and language-model training.
---
## Cleaning and normalization
Cleaning focuses on removing technical noise that would bias frequency distributions
and entropy estimates, while preserving the linguistic signal:
- Unicode normalization (UTF-8, NFC)
- Correction of common mojibake artifacts
- Removal of URLs, e-mail addresses, file names, boilerplate, CMS/navigation lines
- Filtering of lines with a high proportion of non-letter characters
- Optional digit normalization and lowercasing
- Language filtering to keep primarily Bosnian text
---
## Files
- `bosnian_corpus_all.txt` — full corpus (all genres combined)
- Per-genre text files:
- news
- opinion
- forum_chat
- info_howto
- legal_admin
- literature
- ads_promo
- mix_other
- `README.txt` — dataset description
Associated research papers (Bosnian and English) are published separately on Zenodo.
- Download: `data/bosnian-corpus-1.0.zip`
---
## Code availability
Preprocessing, cleaning, and entropy-calculation scripts are available on GitHub:
https://github.com/H4sK0/bosnian-corpus-pipeline
---
## License
This dataset is released under the
**Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)** license.
Users must:
- credit this Zenodo record and the original source corpora
- distribute derivative datasets under the same or a compatible license
---
## Citation
```bibtex
@dataset{kahrimanovic2025bosniancorpus,
title = {Bosnian Corpus (v1.0): Cleaned Web and SMS Text for Entropy and NLP Research},
author = {Kahrimanović, Hasan},
year = {2025},
publisher = {Zenodo},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.17757098}
} |