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| = Apache OpenNLP 1.8.0 released |
| Apache OpenNLP |
| 2017-05-19 |
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| The Apache OpenNLP team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.8.0 of Apache OpenNLP. |
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| The Apache OpenNLP library is a machine learning based toolkit for the processing of natural language text. |
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| It supports the most common NLP tasks, such as tokenization, sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, named entity extraction, chunking, parsing, and coreference resolution. |
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| The OpenNLP 1.8.0 binary and source distributions are available for download from our link:/download.html[download page]. |
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| The OpenNLP library is distributed by Maven Central as well. See the link:/maven-dependency.html[Maven Dependency] page for more details. |
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| Java 1.8 is required to run OpenNLP Maven 3.3.9 is required for building it building from the Source Distribution. |
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| To build everything execute the following command in the root folder: `mvn clean install` |
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| The results of the build will be placed in: `opennlp-distr/target/apache-opennlp-1.8.0-bin.tar.gz` (or `.zip`) |
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| # What's new in Apache OpenNLP 1.8.0 |
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| This release introduces many new features, improvements and bug fixes. The API has been improved for a better consistency and many deprecated methods were removed. Java 1.8 is required. |
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| Additionally the release contains the following noteworthy changes: |
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| - POS Tagger context generator now supports feature generation XML |
| - Add a Name Finder feature generator that adds POS Tag features |
| - Add CONLL-U format support |
| - Improve default Name Finder settings |
| - TokenNameFinderEvaluator CLI now support nameTypes argument |
| - Stupid backoff is now the default in NGramLanguageModel |
| - Language codes now are ISO 639-3 compliant |
| - Add many unit tests |
| - Distribution package now includes example parameters file |
| - Now prefix and suffix feature generators are configurable |
| - Remove API in Document Categorizer for user specified tokenizer |
| - Learnable lemmatizer now returns all possible lemmas for a given word and pos tag |
| - Lemmatizer API backward compatibility break: no need to encode/decode lemmas anymore, now LemmatizerME lemmatize method returns the actual lemma |
| - Add stemmer, detokenizer and sentence detection abbreviations for Irish |
| - Chunker SequenceValidator signature changed to allow access to both token and POS tag |
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| A detailed list of the issues related to this release can be found in the release notes. |
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| Thanks again to all contributors and committers for their help. |
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| --The Apache OpenNLP Team |
