John, That file is a template. We update it during the build. The final file you can find inside the binary distribution or here for convenience:
http://people.apache.org/~colen/releases/opennlp-1.7.0/rc2/RELEASE_NOTES.html (sorry, previously I did a reply instead of a reply all) Thank you, William 2017-01-02 15:47 GMT-02:00 John Stewart <cane.c...@gmail.com>: > This is excellent news. > > One question: where are the release notes? This file hasn't been updated > in a while: https://github.com/apache/opennlp/blob/trunk/opennlp- > distr/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > Thank you! > > jds > > On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 10:30 AM, William Colen <co...@apache.org> wrote: > >> The Apache OpenNLP team is pleased to announce the release of version >> 1.7.0 >> 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 1.7.0 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 deprecated methods were >> removed. Now Java 1.8 and Maven 3.3.9 are required. >> >> Additionally the release contains the following noteworthy changes: >> >> - OpenNLP is up to 50% faster at analyzing content >> - A lot of deprecated code has been removed >> - Code base has been cleaned up >> - There is a new brat annotation service >> - Documentation was improved and extended >> - A Naive Bayesian Classifier implementation was added >> - Morofologik addon is now included >> - Added a language model component >> - Added a CLI to the lemmatizer component. >> - Added a supervised statistical lemmatizer. >> - The lemmatizer component API has been entirely rewritten. The changes in >> the previously existing Dictionary-based lemmatizer are not backward >> compatible. >> >> 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 >> > >
