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= Apache OpenNLP 1.5.2 Incubating released =
Apache OpenNLP
2011-11-28
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The Apache OpenNLP team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.5.2-incubating 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 1.5.2-incubating binary and source distributions are available for download
from our download page:
<http://incubator.apache.org/opennlp/download.cgi>
The OpenNLP library is distributed by Maven Central as well.
See the Maven Dependency page for more details:
<http://incubator.apache.org/opennlp/maven-dependency.html>
This release contains a couple of new features, improvements and bug fixes.
The maxent trainer can now run in multiple threads to utilize
multi-core CPUs, configurable feature generation was added to the name finder,
the perceptron trainer was refactored and improved, machine learners
can now be configured with much more options via a parameter file,
evaluators can print out detailed evaluation information.
Additionally the release contains the following noteworthy changes:
- Improved the white space handling in the Sentence Detector and its training code
- Added more cross validator command line tools
- Command line handling code has been refactored
- Fixed problems with the new build
- Now uses fast token class feature generation code by default
- Added support for BioNLP/NLPBA 2004 shared task data
- Removal of old and deprecated code
- Dictionary case sensitivity support is now done properly
- Support for OSGi
For a complete list of fixed bugs and improvements please see the RELEASE_NOTES
file included in the distribution.
--The Apache OpenNLP Team