UDDIPOK: A reading comprehension based question answering dataset in Bangla language

The popularity of reading comprehension (RC) is increasing day-to-day in Bangla Natural Language Processing (NLP) research area, both in machine learning and deep learning techniques. However, there is no original dataset from various sources in the Bangla language except translated from foreign RC datasets, which contain abnormalities and mismatched translated data. In his paper, we present UDDIPOK, a novel wide-ranging, open-domain Bangla reading comprehension dataset. This dataset contains 270 reading passages, 3636 questions, and answers from diverse origins, for instance, textbooks, exam questions from middle and high schools, newspapers, etc. Furthermore, this dataset is formated in CSV, which contains three columns: passages, questions, and answers. As a result, data can be handled expeditiously and easily for any machine learning research.