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= Apache OpenNLP 1.8.2 released
Apache OpenNLP
2017-09-15
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The Apache OpenNLP team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.8.2 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 1.8.2 binary and source distributions are available for download from our link:/download.html[download page].

The OpenNLP library is distributed by Maven Central as well. See the link:/maven-dependency.html[Maven Dependency] page for more details.

Java 8 is required. Maven 3.3.9 is required for building 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-1.8.2-bin.tar.gz` (or `.zip`)

# What's new in Apache OpenNLP 1.8.2

This release introduces some minor improvements and bug fixes. Java 1.8 is required.

The release contains the following noteworthy changes:
- The Leipzig format support was improved to extract data for langdetect model training
- Maxents loglikelihood threshold can be configured by the user
- Added data verification for the eval data
- Fixed handling of xml parsers used through out the package

A detailed list of the issues related to this release can be found in the release notes.

Thanks again to all contributors and committers for their help.

--The Apache OpenNLP Team