Structure and sources
Ideal structure
The ideal structure of text samples regarding media, text type, genre, field and topic is presented in a table below:
| Text type | % |
| Informative texts | 74 |
| Newspapers | 37 |
| daily | 22 |
| weekly | 9 |
| bi-weekly | 6 |
| Magazines, journals | 16 |
| weekly | 9 |
| monthly | 4 |
| bi-, tri-monthly | 3 |
| Books, brochures, correspondence... | 21 |
| publicistics | 4 |
| popular texts | 3.5 |
| correspondence, ephemera | 0.5 |
| arts and sciences | 13 |
| Imaginative texts (fiction): prose | 23 |
| novels | 13 |
| stories | 5 |
| essays | 4 |
| diaries, (auto)biographies... | 1 |
| Mixed texts | 3 |
Since the compilation of the Corpus is still going on, the desired balance has not been reached yet. When enought source texts for filling up each of outlined constituents will be collected, the final selection of text samples will be done with overall size at least 100 million tokens (100 Mw). In the meantime almost all what has been collected will be open to public access and querying. Our estimation was that it was important to offer public access to HNK, even in this unbalanced form, because it would be introduced faster as the source of primary linguistic data for Croatian, facilitate the accessibility to that data in domestic and foreign universities and their respective Croatistic and/or Slavistic departments, and finally, rise the general level of Croatian linguistic culture.
Provisional structure (HNK v 2.0)
In this moment HNK encompasses the following subcorpora:
- cw1998-2000: Croatia Weekly, 1998-2000, numbers 5-118, 1,6 Mw
- cw2000: Croatia Weekly, 2000, numbers 112-118, lemmatized test corpus!, 118 Kw
- dv2005: Dubrovački vjesnik, 2005, 880 Kw
- fo2003-2005: Fokus, 2003-2005, 2,7 Mw
- gs2002-2005: Glas Slavonije, 2002-2005, 17 Mw
- hr51-55: Hrvatska revija, 51-55 (2001-2005), 1,4 Mw
- Klasici: 65 classical pieces of Croatian literature (CD I. Classics, prose, Naklada Bulaja, 2000.), 3,6 Mw, Detailed list of sources
- Marulic: Complete works by Marko Marulić written in Croatian (Judita; Suzana; Vartal; Dialogues; Epistle of Marko Marulić to Katarina Obirtić), 81 Kw
- Nacional108-265: Nacional, numbers 108-265, 6,9 Mw
- nn1990-2005: Narodne novine, 1990-2005, 18 Mw
- vi210-278: Vijenac, numbers 210-278 15 Mw
- vj2000-2003: Vjesnik, 2000.-2003. 46,6 Mw
- vl1999_03-04: Večernji list, March-April 1999. 2,2 Mw
Text typology
HNK.M medium HNK.M.G spoken HNK.M.E electronic... HNK.M.P written HNK.M.P.O published HNK.M.P.O.B brochure HNK.M.P.O.K book HNK.M.P.O.N newspapers HNK.M.P.O.N.D daily HNK.M.P.O.N.T weekly HNK.M.P.O.N.2 bi-weekly HNK.M.P.O.R magazines, journals HNK.M.P.O.R.T weekly HNK.M.P.O.R.M monthly HNK.M.P.O.R.V bi-, tri-monthly HNK.M.P.N not published HNK.M.P.N.J public HNK.M.P.N.I internal HNK.M.P.N.O personal HNK.V type, genre HNK.V.N faction HNK.V.N.Z sciences HNK.V.N.Z.P natural sciences... HNK.V.N.Z.T technical sciences... HNK.V.N.Z.M biomedical sciences... HNK.V.N.Z.B biotechnical sciences... HNK.V.N.Z.D social sciences... HNK.V.N.Z.H humanities... HNK.V.N.S expert texts HNK.V.N.S.Z travels HNK.V.N.S.K criticism HNK.V.N.S.M media HNK.V.N.S.C criminalistics HNK.V.N.S.S sports HNK.V.N.S.P politics HNK.V.N.S.E ecology, bioethics etc. ... HNK.V.N.N non-expert texts HNK.V.N.N.P publicistics HNK.V.N.N.O popular texts HNK.V.N.N.E ephemera HNK.V.U fiction HNK.V.U.P prose... HNK.V.U.D drama... HNK.V.U.S poetry... HNK.V.M mixed texts