diff --git a/bin/ner_tag.py b/bin/ner_tag.py
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+import codecs
+import plac
+
+from spacy.en import English
+
+
+def main(text_loc):
+    with codecs.open(text_loc, 'r', 'utf8') as file_:
+        text = file_.read()
+    NLU = English()
+    for paragraph in text.split('\n\n'):
+        tokens = NLU(paragraph)
+
+        ent_starts = {}
+        ent_ends = {}
+        for span in tokens.ents:
+            ent_starts[span.start] = span.label_
+            ent_ends[span.end] = span.label_
+
+        output = []
+        for token in tokens:
+            if token.i in ent_starts:
+                output.append('<%s>' % ent_starts[token.i])
+            output.append(token.orth_)
+            if (token.i+1) in ent_ends:
+                output.append('</%s>' % ent_ends[token.i+1])
+        output.append('\n\n')
+    print ' '.join(output)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    plac.call(main)
+
+