| | --- |
| | 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** |
| |
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| | --- |
| |
|
| | ## 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 |
| |
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| | --- |
| |
|
| | ## 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. |
| |
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| | --- |
| |
|
| | ## 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} |
| | } |
