The Apache OpenNLP team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.8.1 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 1.8.1 binary and source distributions are available for download from http://opennlp.apache.org/download.html. The OpenNLP library is distributed by Maven Central as well. See http://opennlp.apache.org/maven-dependency.html for more details. Java 1.8 is required to run OpenNLP Maven 3.3.9 is required for building it building from the Source Distribution. # What's new in Apache OpenNLP 1.8.1 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. Thanks again to all contributors and committers for their help. --The Apache OpenNLP Team