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title: Announcing OpenNLP 1.9.0
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date: '2018-07-04 14:08:16 -0400'
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<p>The Apache OpenNLP team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.9.0 of Apache OpenNLP. The Apache OpenNLP library is a machine learning based toolkit for the processing of natural language text. It supports the most common NLP tasks, such as tokenization, sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, named entity extraction, chunking, and parsing.</p>
<p>
The OpenNLP 1.9.0 binary and source distributions are available for download from our download page: <a href="https://opennlp.apache.org/download.html">https://opennlp.apache.org/download.html</a></p>
<p>
The OpenNLP library is distributed by Maven Central as well. See the Maven Dependency page for more details: <a href="http://opennlp.apache.org/maven-dependency.html">http://opennlp.apache.org/maven-dependency.html</a></p>
<p>
Changes in this version:</p>
<ul>
<li> Brat Document Parser should support name type filters
<li> Brat format support fails on multi fragment annotations
<li> Remove MD5 hashes from Release process
<li> Use String[] instead of StringList in LanguageModel API
<li> BRAT Annotator service Fails to start
<li> Token model creation fails without at least one <SPLIT> tag
<li> Update Penn Treebank URL
<li> Explain the new format of feature generator XML config
<li> Unify code to sum up input context features
<li> FeatureGeneratorUtil can recognize Japanese Hiragana and Katakana letters
</ul>
<p>For a complete list of fixed bugs and improvements please see the RELEASE_NOTES file included in the distribution.</p>
<p>
The Apache OpenNLP Team</p>