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= Apache OpenNLP 2.2.0 released
Apache OpenNLP
2023-04-22
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The Apache OpenNLP team is pleased to announce the release of Apache OpenNLP 2.2.0.

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.

Apache OpenNLP 2.2.0 binary and source distributions are available for download from our download page: link:/download.html[download page]

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

# What's new in Apache OpenNLP 2.2.0

This version contains improvements to logging by introducing SLF4J to replace logging using System.out. ONNX Runtime support for sentence-transformers was also introduced. This version also includes fixes for stemming, documentation, and unit tests.

For a full list please see the list of items addressed in link:https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENNLP-1483?jql=project%20%3D%20OPENNLP%20AND%20status%20in%20(Resolved%2C%20Closed)%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%202.2.0[Jira].

--The Apache OpenNLP Team