Sinhala Physical Common Sense Reasoning Dataset for Global PIQA

TL;DR

This paper introduces the Sinhala Physical Common Sense Reasoning Dataset, a novel resource for evaluating physical reasoning in Sinhala, containing 110 verified samples focused on Sri Lankan context.

Contribution

It is the first dataset of its kind for Sinhala, enabling physical common sense reasoning research in this language and cultural context.

Findings

Dataset contains 110 verified samples.

Questions are contextually relevant to Sri Lanka.

Supports future research in Sinhala NLP and reasoning.

Abstract

This paper presents the first-ever Sinhala physical common sense reasoning dataset created as part of Global PIQA. It contains 110 human-created and verified data samples, where each sample consists of a prompt, the corresponding correct answer, and a wrong answer. Most of the questions refer to the Sri Lankan context, where Sinhala is an official language.