WING-NUS / nus-sms-corpus

This is the distribution point for the NUS SMS Corpus as described and updated from This is a corpus of SMS (Short Message Service) messages collected for research at the Department of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore. This dataset consists of 67,093 SMS messages taken from the corpus on Mar 9, 2015. The messages largely originate from Singaporeans and mostly from students attending the University. These messages were collected from volunteers who were made aware that their contributions were going to be made publicly available. The data collectors opportunistically collected as much metadata about the messages and their senders as possible, so as to enable different types of analyses. This corpus was collected by Tao Chen and Min-Yen Kan. If you use this data, please ensure the following paper is cited. For more details, please refer to Citation field. Tao Chen and Min-Yen Kan (2013). Creating a Live, Public Short Message Service Corpus: The NUS SMS Corpus. Language Resources and Evaluation, 47(2)(2013), pages 299-355. URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10579-012-9197-9

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NUS SMS Corpus

Due to some technicial problems, the NUS SMS Corpus website http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/SMSCorpus is temporally unavailable. For your convenience, we upload the most recent release (Mar 9, 2015) of the corpus here.

Please cite the following paper if you use our corpus. Thanks!

Tao Chen and Min-Yen Kan (2013). Creating a Live, Public Short Message Service Corpus: The NUS SMS Corpus. Language Resources and Evaluation, 47(2)(2013), pages 299-355.

Please do us a favor and send a quick message to Tao Chen (chentaokite @ gmail dot com), if download this corpus and plan on using it. It will only take a minute of your time and will help us get a better idea of what such a corpus might be used for.

Language File Format Size Number of Messages
English SQL 2,045K 55,835
English XML 2,359K 55,835
English JSON 2,740K 55,835
Chinese SQL 979K 31,465
Chinese XML 1,182K 31,465
Chinese JSON 1,700K 31,465

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This is the distribution point for the NUS SMS Corpus as described and updated from This is a corpus of SMS (Short Message Service) messages collected for research at the Department of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore. This dataset consists of 67,093 SMS messages taken from the corpus on Mar 9, 2015. The messages largely originate from Singaporeans and mostly from students attending the University. These messages were collected from volunteers who were made aware that their contributions were going to be made publicly available. The data collectors opportunistically collected as much metadata about the messages and their senders as possible, so as to enable different types of analyses. This corpus was collected by Tao Chen and Min-Yen Kan. If you use this data, please ensure the following paper is cited. For more details, please refer to Citation field. Tao Chen and Min-Yen Kan (2013). Creating a Live, Public Short Message Service Corpus: The NUS SMS Corpus. Language Resources and Evaluation, 47(2)(2013), pages 299-355. URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10579-012-9197-9