---
datasets:
- L3Cube-MahaSQuAD
- l3cube-pune/indic-squad
language: mr
license: cc-by-4.0
pipeline_tag: question-answering
library_name: transformers
---

## MahaBERT-SQuAD
MahaBERT-SQuAD is a MahaBERT model fine-tuned on the translated Marathi question-answering dataset L3Cube-MahaSQuAD. 
[dataset link](https://github.com/l3cube-pune/MarathiNLP)

More details on the dataset, models, and baseline results can be found in our [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13364)
<br>
Citing:
```
@article{ghatage2024mahasquad,
  title={MahaSQuAD: Bridging Linguistic Divides in Marathi Question-Answering},
  author={Ghatage, Ruturaj and Kulkarni, Aditya and Patil, Rajlaxmi and Endait, Sharvi and Joshi, Raviraj},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.13364},
  year={2024}
}
```

```
@article{endait2025indicsquad,
  title={IndicSQuAD: A Comprehensive Multilingual Question Answering Dataset for Indic Languages},
  author={Endait, Sharvi and Ghatage, Ruturaj and Kulkarni, Aditya and Patil, Rajlaxmi and Joshi, Raviraj},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.03688},
  year={2025}
}
```

Other IndicSQuAD models:

| Language  | Model Link                                                                                                |
|-----------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Marathi   | [marathi-question-answering-squad-bert](https://huggingface.co/l3cube-pune/marathi-question-answering-squad-bert) |
| Hindi     | [hindi-question-answering-squad-bert](https://huggingface.co/l3cube-pune/hindi-question-answering-squad-bert)   |
| Bengali   | [bengali-question-answering-squad-bert](https://huggingface.co/l3cube-pune/bengali-question-answering-squad-bert) |
| Telugu    | [telugu-question-answering-squad-bert](https://huggingface.co/l3cube-pune/telugu-question-answering-squad-bert)   |
| Tamil     | [tamil-question-answering-squad-bert](https://huggingface.co/l3cube-pune/tamil-question-answering-squad-bert)   |
| Gujarati  | [gujarati-question-answering-squad-bert](https://huggingface.co/l3cube-pune/gujarati-question-answering-squad-bert) |
| Punjabi   | [punjabi-question-answering-squad-bert](https://huggingface.co/l3cube-pune/punjabi-question-answering-squad-bert)   |
| Kannada   | [kannada-question-answering-squad-bert](https://huggingface.co/l3cube-pune/kannada-question-answering-squad-bert)   |
| Oriya     | [oriya-question-answering-squad-bert](https://huggingface.co/l3cube-pune/oriya-question-answering-squad-bert)     |
| Malayalam | [malayalam-question-answering-squad-bert](https://huggingface.co/l3cube-pune/malayalam-question-answering-squad-bert) |

This project is part of the [L3Cube-IndicNLP](https://github.com/l3cube-pune/indic-nlp) project.