The Apache OpenNLP team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.9.0 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, and parsing.
The OpenNLP 1.9.0 binary and source distributions are available for download from our download page: *https://opennlp.apache.org/download.html <https://opennlp.apache.org/download.html>* 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 Changes in this version: - Brat Document Parser should support name type filters - Brat format support fails on multi fragment annotations - Remove MD5 hashes from Release process - Use String[] instead of StringList in LanguageModel API - BRAT Annotator service Fails to start - Token model creation fails without at least one <SPLIT> tag - Update Penn Treebank URL - Explain the new format of feature generator XML config - Unify code to sum up input context features - FeatureGeneratorUtil can recognize Japanese Hiragana and Katakana letters For a complete list of fixed bugs and improvements please see the RELEASE_NOTES file included in the distribution. The Apache OpenNLP Team
