Apache OpenNLP ${pom.version}
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Requirements
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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

The results of the build will be placed  in:
    opennlp-distr/target/apache-opennlp-[version]-bin.tar-gz (or .zip)

What is new in Apache OpenNLP ${pom.version}
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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.

Additionally the release contains the following noteworthy changes:

- A new Language Detection Component
- Support for Irish Sentence Bank formats
- Support to train the sentence detector and tokenizer on the UD corpus
- Evaluation tests now support ISO-639-3 language codes
- Convenience methods to load models from a path
- Refactored the Data Indexer Code
- Optimized NGram creation loop to better leverage CPU cache
- Refactored BratNameSampleStream
- Remove deprecated code from util package
- Redesigned web site - https://opennlp.apache.org
- New logo for the project

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