Not old, mature. Daniel Russ, Ph.D. Staff Scientist, Division of Computational Bioscience Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 12 South Drive Bethesda, MD 20892-5624
On Nov 6, 2015, at 11:54 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) <chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov<mailto:chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov>> wrote: Hi Everyone, Hope youąre well! Iąm new to the list, however I just wanted to state Iąm really happy with what Iąve seen with OpenNLP so far. My team and I have built a Tika Parser [1] that uses OpenNLPąs location NER model, along with a Lucene Geo Names Gazeeteer [2] to create a łGeoTopicParser˛. We are improving it day to day. OpenNLP has definitely come a long way from when I looked at it years ago in its nascence. That said, I keep hearing from people I talk to in the NLP community that for example OpenNLP is łold˛, and that I should be looking at e.g., Stanfordąs NER, and NTLK, etc. Besides obvious license issues (NER is GPL as an example and I am only interested in ALv2 or permissive license code), I donąt have a great answer to whether or not OpenNLP is old or not active, or not as good, etc. Can devs on this list help me answer that question? Iąd like to be able to tell these NLP people the next time I talk to them that no, in fact, OpenNLP isnąt *old*, and itąs active, and there are these X and Y lines of development, and hereąs where they are going, etc. Looking at: https://whimsy.apache.org/board/minutes/OpenNLP I see that you guys have done GSoC, are working on a Naive Bayes classifier; summarization components, are making releases (seemingly more frequently, etc.). I also looked at: https://reporter.apache.org/ And I see your project health score and activity is excellent. Thanks and let me know. Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Chief Architect Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
