Kokborok - Twipra - Question Answering Dataset

The Kokborok (Twipra) Question Answering Dataset contains 4,943 question-answer pairs in Kokborok, also known as Tripuri, a low-resource Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily in Tripura, India.

About Dataset

The Kokborok (Twipra) Question Answering Dataset is a text-based question-answering resource containing 4,943 question-answer pairs in Kokborok, also known as Tripuri. Kokborok is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Twipra community in Tripura, India. Each example consists of a 'prompt' field containing a user question or instruction and a 'completion' field containing the corresponding assistant response. The dataset is described in: Agniva Maiti. (2026). Kokborok (Twipra) Question Answering Dataset. Available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/agnivamaiti/kokborok-qa. This dataset was identified and facilitated for onboarding as part of the Dataset Onboarding Support Team (DOST) initiative led by CivicDataLab (CDL), partnering with the Gatess Foundation in collaboration with BHASHINI. CivicDataLab provided support for dataset discovery, validation, metadata preparation and onboarding facilitation. All dataset ownership and intellectual property rights remain with the original author.

Purpose of Dataset

The purpose of this dataset is to provide a foundational question-answering and instruction-following resource for Kokborok and support the development of language technologies for this low-resource language. It can be used for question answering, chatbot development, conversational AI, text generation, instruction tuning, dialogue systems, language model fine-tuning, and evaluation of generative AI systems for Kokborok. It can further support digital language resources and AI applications for the Twipra community.

Dataset Metadata

License

Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Geographical coverage

Northeast India

Sector

Science, Technology and Research

Author

Agniva Maiti

Source Organisation

Digital India BHASHINI Division

Uploaded by

Nikil Augustine

Data Quality Score (Beta)

Dataset type

Structured

Frequency

Static

Time Granularity

Static

Year range

N.A.

Date & Time

26/08/26 08:04:45

Visibility

Open

Hosted / Redirected

Hosted

Data Type

Hybrid

Data Collection Method

The Question-answer Pairs Were Curated Specifically For The Kokborok/twipra Community As Part Of Low-resource Northeast Indian Language Nlp Work. The Dataset Consists Of Examples Covering Everyday Conversational And Informational Topics. Each Example Contains A User Prompt And An Assistant Response In Kokborok. The Resulting Collection Was Reviewed As Part Of The Author's Dataset Development Process.