The Apache OpenNLP team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.7.2 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 1.7.2 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-172.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-172.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-1.7.2-bin.tar-gz (or .zip) What's new in Apache OpenNLP 1.7.2 <http://opennlp.apache.org/announcement/release-172.html#what-is-new-in-apache-opennlp-172> This release introduces many new features, improvements and bug fixes. The API has been improved for a better consistency and 1.4 deprecated methods were removed. Now Java 1.8 is required. Additionally the release contains the following noteworthy changes: - Name Finder evaluation can now show a confusion matrix - The default evaluation output contains more details - Added a Language Model CLI tool - Add Moses format support - More refactoring and cleanup, specially in Machine Learning package and Dictionary - Removed deprecated trainers from UIMA integration - Fixed potential localization issues and added maven plugin to prevent it (ForbiddenAPI) - Fixed issues with the BRAT corpus reader - Deprecated GIS class, will be removed in a future 1.8.x release 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.