---
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.

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## 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

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## 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`

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## Code availability

Preprocessing, cleaning, and entropy-calculation scripts are available on GitHub:

https://github.com/H4sK0/bosnian-corpus-pipeline

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## 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

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## 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}
}