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---

language: si

tags:
- question-answering
- Sinhala

widget:
- context: "ශ්‍රී ලංකාව යනු ඉන්දියානු සාගරයේ පිහිටි මනරම් දුපතකි."
  text: "ශ්‍රී ලංකාව පිහිටා ඇත්තේ කොහෙද ?"
  


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# mt5-base-sinhala-qa

This is an mt5-based Question Answering model for the Sinhalese language. Training is done on translated SQuAD dataset of 8k questions. The translation was done by google translated API. Evaluation is still to be done. Still fine-tuning the model.

Evaluation - {'exact_match': 37.13, 'f1': 64.35}