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 The linting workflow will now run on modified files before committing, and may fix issues for you.
 
 If you want to run the full workflow on all the files: `pre-commit run -a`.
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+## Citation
+
+If you use this work, please cite us using this Bibtex citation:
+
+```
+@misc{nerval2021,
+	title        = {Nerval: a python library for named-entity recognition evaluation on noisy texts},
+	author       = {Miret, Blanche and Kermorvant, Christopher},
+	year         = 2021,
+	journal      = {GitLab repository},
+	publisher    = {GitLab},
+	howpublished = {\url{https://gitlab.com/teklia/ner/nerval}}
+}
+```
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