Kurdish Sorani (Central Kurdish) Text Corpus

Published: 4 February 2026| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/wgp928kh4z.1
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Tarik A. Rashid,
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A cleaned Kurdish Sorani (Central Kurdish) text corpus developed by the University of Kurdistan Hewler (UKH) /Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Centre (AIIC) and the Kurdish Academy (KA). The corpus is compiled from a large collection of academic books covering diverse topics, including: 1. Literature & Poetry 2. History & Politics 3. Philosophy 4. Economics 5. Science & Technology 6. Religion & Islamic Studies 7. Law & Legal Studies 8. Education 9. Linguistics & Language Studies 10. Social Sciences 11. Art & Culture 12. Medicine & Health 13. Geography 14. Psychology 15. Translation Studies The corpus has been processed to normalise character variants, separate Persian content, and standardise text formatting. Owner: UKH-AIIC & Kurdish Academy Language: Kurdish Sorani (ckb) Script: Arabic-based Kurdish alphabet Format: Plain text (.txt) Acknowledgments We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the following institutions for providing the primary texts used in this dataset: the Kurdish Academy, the Ministry of Culture, the University of Duhok, Koya University, the University of Sulaimani, and the University of Raparin. Furthermore, we extend our thanks to the volunteers who assisted in the classification and processing of the data: Dr Diyar Ali Kamal (Salahaddin University), Hersh Chato Hassan (University of Raparin), Rizgar Qadir Rasul (Soran University), Himdad Raoof Barzanji (International School of Choueifat), and Mohammed Shwan Shafiq (Shyaw High School). Their contributions were essential to the completion of this work.

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Natural Language Processing, Corpus Linguistics, Kurd, Textbook

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