The Apache OpenNLP team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.8.2 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 1.8.2 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 Requirements <http://opennlp.apache.org/announcement/release-172.html#requirements> Java 8 is required to run OpenNLP, Maven 3.3.9 is required for building it Building from the Source Distribution <http://opennlp.apache.org/announcement/release-172.html#building-from-the-source-distribution> To build everything execute the following command in the root folder: mvn clean install The results of the build will be placed in: opennlp-distr/target/apache-opennlp-1.8.2-bin.tar-gz (or .zip) What's new in Apache OpenNLP 1.8.2 This release introduces some minor improvements and bug fixes. The release contains the following noteworthy changes: - The Leipzig format support was improved to extract data for langdetect model training - Maxents loglikelihood treshold can be configured by the user - Added data verification for the eval data - Fixed handling of xml parsers used through out the package 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