[ANNOUNCE] Apache OpenNLP 1.7.2 Release

[Suneel Marthi <sm...@apache.org>]

The Apache OpenNLP team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.7.2
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 1.7.2 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 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-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-1.7.2-bin.tar-gz (or .zip)
What's new in Apache OpenNLP 1.7.2
<http://opennlp.apache.org/announcement/release-172.html#what-is-new-in-apache-opennlp-172>

This release introduces many new features, improvements and bug fixes. The
API has been improved for a better consistency and 1.4 deprecated methods
were removed. Now Java 1.8 is required.

Additionally the release contains the following noteworthy changes:

   - Name Finder evaluation can now show a confusion matrix
   - The default evaluation output contains more details
   - Added a Language Model CLI tool
   - Add Moses format support
   - More refactoring and cleanup, specially in Machine Learning package
   and Dictionary
   - Removed deprecated trainers from UIMA integration
   - Fixed potential localization issues and added maven plugin to prevent
   it (ForbiddenAPI)
   - Fixed issues with the BRAT corpus reader
   - Deprecated GIS class, will be removed in a future 1.8.x release

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.