Updating info on original dataset format

README.md

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     num_examples: 499
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     num_examples: 3996
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+# Dataset Card for Universal NER v1 in the Aya format
+
+This dataset is a format conversion from its original v1 format into the Aya instruction format and it's released here under the same CC-BY-SA 4.0 license and conditions.
+
+It contains data in multiple languages and this version is intended for multi-lingual LLM construction/tuning.
+
+The dataset contains different subsets and their dev/test/train splits, depending on language. 
+
+## Citation
+
+If you utilize this dataset version, feel free to cite/footnote this huggingface dataset repo, but please also cite the original dataset publication.
+
+**BibTeX:**
+
+```
+@preprint{mayhew2023universal,
+  title={{Universal NER: A Gold-Standard Multilingual Named Entity Recognition Benchmark}}, 
+  author={Stephen Mayhew and Terra Blevins and Shuheng Liu and Marek Šuppa and Hila Gonen and Joseph Marvin Imperial and Börje F. Karlsson and Peiqin Lin and Nikola Ljubešić and LJ Miranda and Barbara Plank and Arij Riabi and Yuval Pinter},
+  year={2023},
+  eprint={2311.09122},
+  archivePrefix={arXiv},
+  primaryClass={cs.CL}
+}
+```
+
+## Dataset Details
+
+For the original Universal NER dataset v1 and more details, please check https://huggingface.co/datasets/universalner/universal_ner.
+
+## Format Conversion Details
+
+The templates used to reformat the dataset are in the ./templates-uner directory.