Author: joern
Date: Thu Jul 9 21:55:48 2015
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URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1690178
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+Title: Apache OpenNLP 1.6.0 released
+
+The Apache OpenNLP team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.6.0 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, parsing, and coreference resolution.
+
+The OpenNLP 1.6.0 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>
+
+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 1.7 is required.
+
+Additionally the release contains the following noteworthy changes:
+
+- Added evalutation support to the parser and doccat components
+- Added support to Evalita 07/09, Brat and OntoNotes corpus formats
+- Now L-BFGS is stable
+- Added Snowball to the Stemmer package
+- NameFinder now supports a user defined factory
+- Added pluggable machine learning support
+- Added a lemmatizer module
+- Added Cluster, Document Begin and Clark feature generators to the Name Finder
+- Added Liblinear as a Machine Learning addon
+- Entity Linker now has a command line interface
+- Added sequence classification support
+
+A detailed list of the issues related to this release can be found in the
release notes.
+
+For a complete list of fixed bugs and improvements please see the RELEASE_NOTES
+file included in the distribution.
+
+--The Apache OpenNLP Team
+
