Sarajevo Corpus of SMS Messages in Bosnian

Today, we live in a world of constant correspondence using our mobile phones: we regularly send messages through numerous applications for which it is enough to have access to the Internet and then nothing limits us in typing messages.However, do we remember a time when it wasn't like that?Not so long ago, thirty years ago, on December 3, 1992, the first SMS message was sent.From the first message to the appearance of applications such as WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook, Instagram -civilization communicated via SMS and through this communication developed a language that had its own specifics.The language of SMS messages is defined primarily by text limitations: one message could have a maximum of 160 characters with spaces.Therefore, users were forced to make their language as economical as possible, that is, to convey as much meaning as possible with as few language symbols as possible, regardless of the possible formality imperatives.The conventions of using this language are not isolated: they have left a strong impact on our entire correspondence, so even our current communication through a large number of applications is strongly influenced by former SMS messages.At the same time, the language of SMS messages itself developed together with the technology that enabled later certain corrections and suggestions of words.This is why this language is interesting both to linguists and to researchers of other non-linguistic disciplines, such as sociology, psychology, cultural studies, etc.However, despite the great potential that SMS messages offer, SMS message corpora are rare in the world, primarily due to the difficult process of collecting samples that will be diverse enough to cover different aspects of interest to researchers.Most of these corps are privately owned and are not available to the public today.Among the active corpora available to the scientific community, the following can be distinguished: The Swiss SMS Corpus, 88MilSMS: French text-message corpus and sms4science.Recognizing the potential that such a corpus would offer, a group of authors gathered in Sarajevo and decided to use perhaps the last chance to "catch" SMS messages in the