Tasks/Question Answering
Question Answering
প্রশ্নোত্তরExtractive and generative QA over Bangla passages and knowledge.
4 datasets·27 papersTop listed · BanglaT5 — 78.11 Answer F1 (0-100, higher is better) (2022)
| Dataset | Size | License | Year ▾ | Source paper | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
NCTB-QA Educational QA from 50 NCTB textbooks with answerable, unanswerable, and adversarial instances. | 87,805 QA pairs | CC BY-NC 4.0 | 2026 | NCTB-QA (arXiv 2026) | ✓ verified 2026-08-23 |
BanglaRQA Human-annotated reading comprehension with answerable/unanswerable questions. | 14,889 QA pairs | CC BY-NC 4.0 | 2022 | BanglaRQA (Findings EMNLP 2022) | ✓ verified 2026-06-15 |
SQuAD_bn Machine-translated + human-curated SQuAD 2.0 for Bangla. | 132,777 QA pairs | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | 2021 | BanglaBERT benchmarks | ✓ verified 2026-07-19 |
TyDi QA (bn) Bengali primary-task data with 10,768 train and 328 dev questions for passage selection and minimal answer extraction; not the GoldP subset. | 11,096 questions | Apache 2.0 | 2020 | TyDi QA primary tasks v1.0 (TACL 2020) | ✓ verified 2026-09-08 |
Results listed for BanglaRQA overall test (fine-tuned) · metric: Answer F1 (0-100, higher is better)
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2026A Novel Approach for AI Question Answer System/Agent in Bengali using LLMKoner et al.IAPQR TRANSACTIONS2026Automated Bengali Physics MCQ Solver: A Large Language Model Approach with Chain-of-Thought ReasoningChowdhury et al.IEEE QPAIN2026Do Small Models Use the Law You Give Them? Context-Injected Fine-Tuning for Legal QA in BangladeshMahadi et al.arXiv2026Evaluating Large Vision Language Models on Bangla Medical Visual Question AnsweringAhmed et al.Findings ACL2026NCTB-QA: A Large-Scale Bangla Educational Question Answering Dataset and Benchmarking PerformanceEyasir et al.arXiv2026Understanding QA generation: Extracting Parametric and Contextual Knowledge with CQA for Low Resource Bangla LanguageAzmary et al.arXiv2025Bangla-Bayanno: A 52K-Pair Bengali Visual Question Answering Dataset with LLM-Assisted Translation RefinementHasan et al.arXiv2025BanglaMedQA and BanglaMMedBench: Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation Strategies for Bangla Biomedical Question AnsweringSultana et al.arXiv2025Benchmarking Bangla Causality: A Dataset of Implicit and Explicit Causal Sentences and Cause-Effect RelationsSaha et al.IJCNLP2025bnContextQA: Benchmarking Long-Context Question Answering and Challenges in BanglaAhmad et al.BLP @ IJCNLP-AACL2025P6Jiggasha: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Bangla Physics Question Answering with Cross-lingual EvaluationShahriar et al.BLP @ IJCNLP-AACL2024Advancements and Challenges in Bangla Question Answering Models: A Comprehensive ReviewTashik et al.arXiv2024BanglaQuAD: A Bengali Open-domain Question Answering DatasetRony et al.arXiv2024ChitroJera: A Regionally Relevant Visual Question Answering Dataset for BanglaBarua et al.arXiv2024Unlocking the Potential of Multiple BERT Models for Bangla Question Answering in NCTB TextbooksKhondoker et al.arXiv2023Question Answer Generation in Bengali: Mitigating the scarcity of QA datasets in a low-resource languageShahriar et al.IJCNLP2022BanglaRQA: A Benchmark Dataset for Under-resourced Bangla Language Reading Comprehension-based Question Answering with Diverse Question-Answer TypesEkram et al. · Answerable + unanswerable human-written questions.Findings EMNLP2022Reading comprehension based question answering system in Bangla language with transformer-based learningAurpa et al.Heliyon2021An improvement of Bengali factoid question answering system using unsupervised statistical methodsDas et al.Sadhana2021Deep learning based Bengali question answering system using semantic textual similarityDas et al.Multimedia Tools and Applications2020A novel approach for automatic Bengali question answering system using semantic similarity analysisDas et al.International Journal of Speech Technology2020Deep learning based question answering system in BengaliMayeesha et al.Journal of Information and Telecommunication2020End-To-End Neural Network for Paraphrased Question Answering Architecture with Single Supporting Line in Bangla LanguageUddin et al.International Journal of Future Computer and Communication2020TyDi QA: A Benchmark for Information-Seeking Question Answering in Typologically Diverse LanguagesClark et al. · Includes Bengali.TACL2019Classifier combination approach for question classification for Bengali question answering systemBanerjee et al.Sadhana2013An Empirical Study of Combing Multiple Models in Bengali Question ClassificationBanerjee et al.IJCNLP2012Bengali Question Classification: Towards Developing QA SystemBanerjee et al.WSSANLP