AsoSoft Kurdish Text Corpus

Year: 2018
Size: Full research corpus: approximately 188M tokens and 458,000 documents; public releases: 75M and 5M tokens
License: Non-commercial research terms; standardized license not verified
Domain: General Text
Languages:
Central Kurdish (Sorani)
Formats:
Text TEI

Resource Description

A large Central Kurdish text corpus collected from websites, books and magazines. The research paper reports approximately 188 million tokens and 458,000 documents; public releases are smaller subsets.

Data Structure

Normalized Central Kurdish text with TEI metadata and topic labels for a subset.

Primary Publication

Toward Kurdish language processing: Experiments in collecting and processing the AsoSoft text corpus

Hadi Veisi , Mohammad Mohammadamini , Hawre Hosseini (2020)

Development and analysis of a large Central Kurdish text corpus collected from websites, books and magazines, with Kurdish-specific normalization and TEI-based organization.

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How to Cite

Veisi, H., MohammadAmini, M., & Hosseini, H. Toward Kurdish language processing: Experiments in collecting and processing the AsoSoft text corpus.

Dataset Information

Total Size Full research corpus: approximately 188M tokens and 458,000 documents; public releases: 75M and 5M tokens
Languages 1 language
Formats 2 formats
Related Papers 1 publication

Data Access

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Licensed under Non-commercial research terms; standardized license not verified