Hello, I'm also relatively new to OpenNLP, but I didn't had the problems you mentioned here. I'm using Netbeans, and the only thing I had to do was to add the dependencies to a Maven project in Netbeans. Thats all, after 10 minutes or so I was able to work with OpenNLP in my own Java projects.
I build a little Swing application which I use for annotating named entities. Intergarting the OpenNLP tools so that I'm able to manually annotate, train and apply the models to new texts from my own application was a matter of some hours. I agree with you that at some points the OpenNLP documentation is not perfect, but overall it was not too hard to get started. Maybe you should try a modern IDE like Netbeans, this helps you a lot and makes your work much more efficient. Best, Tom Am 11.10.2013 19:14, schrieb MrPowerg8 .: > So many times have i come across opennlp while programming java but never > really thought of using it but a week or so a go i wanted to give it a go > and see if it worked better than my own project, so i follow the very vague > instructions on your website downloaded and installed maven (which was a > pain on its own) then continued with the instructions coming across lots of > problems on the way with very little documentation of fixes for any of > them. The "build procedure" instructions > http://opennlp.apache.org/building.html give several instructions of > commands to run via maven, none of which were even the correct ones to use > or work and i ended up making some stupid project and running a hello world > example accidentally while following > http://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/maven-in-five-minutes.html but > at least that got the job done. > Well after 2-3 days (4-6 hours) i got it working so that mvn --version > displayed what it is meant to. n > > Now there is absolutely nothing about how to use it in conjunction with any > IDE's so i had to import library of ever single jar in > "apache-opennlp-1.5.3" which i could finally create code with that ran but > then the code couldn't find any of the models which i then downloaded from > here http://opennlp.sourceforge.net/models-1.5/ and once again had to > figure out myself what to do with them as there are no instructions and > ended up importing them as well as placing them in my project folder. > > now can you please explain why this is so complicated compared to other > api's where i can normally download a single jar and import it? > > my conclusion is that opennpl has not nearly enough documentation and > guides on everything due to the fact there are not many people using it > because of how hard and time consuming it is to install and work. (12 hours > total) and how making the instillation process simpler would improve the > things for you and the community greatly. >
