License
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This dataset is distributed under the [CC-BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) license.

If you use this data, please cite the relevant paper:

Leon Derczynski, Eric Nichols, Marieke van Erp, Nut Limsopatham; 2017.
Results of the WNUT2017 Shared Task on Novel and Emerging Entity Recognition.
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Noisy, User-generated Text, at EMNLP.
(http://noisy-text.github.io/2017/pdf/WNUT18.pdf)


Modifications
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A couple minor modifications were made; these are specified in file README.rst.

