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@@ -8,6 +8,22 @@ A large-scale dataset for cross-document event coreference extracted from Englis
 
 English
 
+## Load Dataset
+You can read in WEC-Eng files as follows (using the **huggingface_hub** library):
+
+```json
+from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_url, cached_download
+import json
+REPO_ID = "datasets/Intel/WEC-Eng"
+splits_files = ["Dev_Event_gold_mentions_validated.json",
+                "Test_Event_gold_mentions_validated.json",
+                "Train_Event_gold_mentions.json"]
+wec_eng = list()
+for split_file in splits_files:
+    wec_eng.append(json.load(open(cached_download(
+        hf_hub_url(REPO_ID, split_file)), "r")))
+```
+
 ## Dataset Structure
 
 ### Data Instances