Sinhala question answering (QA) dataset contains a subset of the translated eli5 (explain like I'm 5) English dataset. eli5 is a crowdsourced dataset based mainly on the content from the subreddit r/explainlikeimfive.
This is a forum where users post complex questions and other users provide simplified explanations.
A subset of eli5 dataset (10k samples) has been machine translated to Sinhala language using the Google Cloud Translation API.… See the full description on the dataset page:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/ihalage/sinhala-finetune-qa-eli5.