Kurdish Sorani (Central Kurdish) Text Corpus

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.