agnivamaiti/kokborok-qa

Kokborok (Twipra) Question Answering Dataset

Dataset Summary

This dataset contains 4,943 question–answer pairs in Kokborok (also known as Tripuri), a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily in Tripura, India. It was curated to support the development of AI models — chatbots, QA systems, and instruction-tuned assistants — for the Twipra community.

Supported Tasks

• Question Answering: given a question/prompt in Kokborok, produce an appropriate answer.
• Text Generation / Instruction Following: the same prompt/completion format also supports general instruction-tuning use cases.

Languages

Kokborok / Tripuri (ISO 639-3: trp), a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Twipra community in Tripura, India.

Dataset Structure

Data Instance

{
  "prompt": "User: Nwng kwzwng?",
  "completion": "Assistant: Ang hamjak. Nwngni kok sa di. Tamo khwlai tongo?"
}

Data Fields

• prompt: string — the user's question or instruction, prefixed with User:.
• completion: string — the assistant's answer, prefixed with Assistant:.

Note: an earlier draft of this card referred to a instruction / response field pair — the dataset as published actually uses prompt / completion. This card reflects the fields as they exist in the data.

Data Splits

Split	Pairs
train	4,943

Dataset Creation

Source Data

Question–answer pairs were curated specifically for the Kokborok/Twipra community, covering everyday conversational and informational topics.

Annotations

Pairs were constructed and reviewed as part of the author's ongoing low-resource Northeast Indian language NLP work.

Considerations for Using the Data

Limitations

• Moderate scale (~4,900 pairs) — useful for fine-tuning or evaluation, but likely insufficient alone to train a general-purpose Kokborok QA system from scratch.
• Domain coverage (topics, registers, dialectal variation within Kokborok) is not exhaustive.

Licensing

Licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 (attribution required, non-commercial use only). For commercial licensing inquiries, please contact the author.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

@misc{maiti2026kokborokqa,
      title={Kokborok (Twipra) Question Answering Dataset},
      author={Agniva Maiti},
      year={2026},
      howpublished={\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/agnivamaiti/kokborok-qa}}
}

Contact

Agniva Maiti — KIIT University — HuggingFace: agnivamaiti