The Apache OpenNLP team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.7.1 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 1.7.1 binary and source distributions are available for download from our download page: http://opennlp.apache.org/cgi-bin/download.cgi The OpenNLP library is distributed by Maven Central as well. See the Maven Dependency page for more details: http://opennlp.apache.org/maven-dependency.html Requirements <http://opennlp.apache.org/announcement/release-171.html#requirements> Java 1.8 is required to run OpenNLP Maven 3.3.9 is required for building it Building from the Source Distribution <http://opennlp.apache.org/announcement/release-171.html#building-from-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-1.7.1-bin.tar-gz (or .zip) What is new in Apache OpenNLP 1.7.1 <http://opennlp.apache.org/announcement/release-171.html#what-is-new-in-apache-opennlp-171> This release introduces many new features, improvements and bug fixes. Additionally the release contains the following noteworthy changes: - Travis CI Integration - Added support to LETSMT format - All stdout can be disabled during training via verbose parameter - Improved and extended evaluation tests - Refactoring and cleanup of code base - Code fully migrated to Java 8 - Added an improved GitHub README page For a complete list of fixed bugs and improvements please see the RELEASE_NOTES file included in the distribution. --The Apache OpenNLP Team
