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| = Apache OpenNLP 1.7.2 released |
| Apache OpenNLP |
| 2017-02-04 |
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| :jbake-status: published |
| :category: news |
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| The Apache OpenNLP team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.7.2 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, parsing, and coreference resolution. |
| |
| The OpenNLP 1.7.2 binary and source distributions are available for download from our download page: <http://opennlp.apache.org/cgi-bin/download.cgi> |
| |
| The OpenNLP library is distributed by Maven Central as well. See the Maven Dependency page for more details: <http://opennlp.apache.org/maven-dependency.html> |
| |
| Requirements |
| ------------ |
| Java 1.8 is required to run OpenNLP |
| Maven 3.3.9 is required for building it |
| |
| Building from the Source Distribution |
| ------------------------------------- |
| |
| To build everything execute the following command in the root folder: |
| mvn clean install |
| |
| The results of the build will be placed in: |
| opennlp-distr/target/apache-opennlp-1.7.2-bin.tar-gz (or .zip) |
| |
| What is new in Apache OpenNLP 1.7.2 |
| --------------------------------------- |
| |
| This release introduces many new features, improvements and bug fixes. The API |
| has been improved for a better consistency and 1.4 deprecated methods were |
| removed. Now Java 1.8 is required. |
| |
| Additionally the release contains the following noteworthy changes: |
| |
| - Name Finder evaluation can now show a confusion matrix |
| - The default evaluation output contains more details |
| - Added a Language Model CLI tool |
| - Add Moses format support |
| - More refactoring and cleanup, specially in Machine Learning package and Dictionary |
| - Removed deprecated trainers from UIMA integration |
| - Fixed potential localization issues and added maven plugin to prevent it (ForbiddenAPI) |
| - Fixed issues with the BRAT corpus reader |
| - Deprecated GIS class, will be removed in a future 1.8.x release |
| |
| A detailed list of the issues related to this release can be found in the release |
| notes. |
