SOMADHAN: A Reasoning Based Bengali Math Word Problem Dataset

SOMADHAN is a Bengali Math Word Problem (MWP) dataset specifically designed to facilitate research in multilingual and low-resource natural language processing tasks, particularly in mathematical reasoning. This dataset consists of 8,792 Bengali complex math word problems, each accompanied by detailed, step-by-step solutions that mimic the logical flow of human problem-solving. The development of SOMADHAN was inspired by and based on the structure of the GSM8K dataset, a widely-used English-language benchmark for mathematical reasoning tasks. To ensure a robust and comprehensive dataset, we utilized the train and test portions of the publicly available GSM8K dataset, which together contain 8,792 English math problems with solutions.