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Posted to users@opennlp.apache.org by Suneel Marthi <sm...@apache.org> on 2017/01/24 00:55:02 UTC
[ANNOUNCE] Apache OpenNLP 1.7.1 Release
The Apache OpenNLP team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.7.1
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 1.7.1 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-171.html#requirements>
Java 1.8 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-171.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-1.7.1-bin.tar-gz (or .zip)
What is new in Apache OpenNLP 1.7.1
<http://opennlp.apache.org/announcement/release-171.html#what-is-new-in-apache-opennlp-171>
This release introduces many new features, improvements and bug fixes.
Additionally the release contains the following noteworthy changes:
- Travis CI Integration
- Added support to LETSMT format
- All stdout can be disabled during training via verbose parameter
- Improved and extended evaluation tests
- Refactoring and cleanup of code base
- Code fully migrated to Java 8
- Added an improved GitHub README page
For a complete list of fixed bugs and improvements please see the
RELEASE_NOTES file included in the distribution.
--The Apache OpenNLP Team