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Modeling Biological Processes for Reading Comprehension Jonathan Berant, Vivek Srikumar, Pei-Chun Chen, Brad Huang and Christopher D. Manning Stanford University, Stanford Abby Vander Linden and Brittany Harding Peter Clark University of Washington, Seattle Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Seattle Abstract answer reading comprehension questions that test understanding of the underlying structure. In par- Machine reading calls for programs that ticular, we consider processes in biology text- read and understand text, but most current books such as this excerpt and the question that work only attempts to extract facts from follows: redundant web-scale corpora. In this pa- per, we focus on a new reading compre- “. . . Water is split, providing a source of elec- trons and protons (hydrogen ions, H) and giv- hension task that requires complex reason- ing over a single document. The input is ing off O as a by-product. Light absorbed by a paragraph describing a biological pro- chlorophyll drives a transfer of the electrons cess, and the goal is to answer questions and hydrogen ions from water to an acceptor called NADP . . . ” that require an understanding of the re- lations between entities and events in the Q