+1 to making OpenNLP better and eating the ASF dogfood, great response Jörn.
Cheers, Chris On Aug 1, 2012, at 5:00 AM, Jörn Kottmann wrote: > On 08/01/2012 01:01 PM, Miller, Timothy wrote: >> There was some chatter last week about resources potentially being >> downloaded via maven for license compatibility reasons. Just wondering if >> that brings about the possibility of using external libraries that are not >> apache-licensed that would also be auto-downloaded under certain maven build >> commands. Specifically I was thinking of the GPL-licensed berkeley parser >> which I've used to get significantly higher accuracy than the opennlp parser >> we currently wrap in our constituency parser module. > > Making scripts or maven build commands which download stuff is fine, but it > might > turn out to be quit limiting for your users which need the freedom of the AL. > That will be > a problem if Berkeley is the only option. > > The HBase people for example have an optional dependency on LZO which is GPL, > and people there just need to install and download it themselves. > See here: > http://hbase.apache.org/book/lzo.compression.html > > Speaking as an OpenNLP committer now, it would of course be nice to make our > parser better. > If you want to work on that we will be happy to get some patches. > > Jörn ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
