Corpus of texts in Bulgarian, representing text genres such as news, legal, and poetry. Encoded with SGML according to the Corpus Encoding Standard (CES). Approximately 275 000 words.

The corpus includes the following texts:

1. A selection of newspaper articles from "24 Hours", 1996
2. A selection of newspaper articles from 'Zemedelsko zname' ("Agrarian Flag"), 1996
3. A collection of 42 newspaper articles on Soros' "Open Society" Fund
4. A selection of literary texts: a part of the novel "Love at the Age of Sclerosis" by Natasha Manolova; a part of the novel "The Big Fraud" by Vesela Lyutskanova; 11 short stories and a novella by Asen Sirakov; 12 short stories from the book "Cyclops' Eye" by Todor Velchev; a part of Snezhana Snegovana's novella "The Fiery Violin"
5. A selection of poems from "We Are a Hopeless Case" by Miryana Ba sheva; a collection of modern Bulgarian love poetry "Love - a Reality of Magic" (many authors)
6. Zhelyu Zhelev "Fascism" (2 chapters)
7. Polya Goleva "Bulgarian Insurance Law"
8. An unpublished sociological study about Bulgaria
9. Bulgarian Fiction - 2 novels: Emilia Dvoryanova 'PASSION ili smy1rtta na Alisa' ("Passion or the Death of Alice"), Julia Berberyan 'Iskam, vyarvam, moga' ("I want, I believe, I can")
10. Newspapers: a few issues of 'Capital' and "Continent' (1996)

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