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[VOTE] Accept OpenNLP for incubation
Hi,
lets vote on the acceptance of the OpenNLP Project for incubation
at the Apache Incubator.
The proposal is on the wiki
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenNLPProposal
and a copy is included below.
The discussion thread can be found here:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201011.mbox/%3C4CE4F1F4.3010909@gmail.com%3E
Please cast your votes:
[ ] +1 Accept OpenNLP for incubation
[ ] +0 Don't care
[ ] -1 Reject for the following reason:
The vote is open for at least 72 hours.
Thanks!
Jörn
= OpenNLP Proposal =
The following is a proposal for a new top-level project within the ASF.
== Abstract ==
OpenNLP is a Java machine learning toolkit for natural language processing (NLP).
== Proposal ==
OpenNLP 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. These tasks are usually required to build more advanced text processing services.
The goal of the OpenNLP project will be to create a mature toolkit for the abovementioned tasks. An additional goal is to provide a large number of pre-built models for a variety of languages, as well as the annotated text resources that those models are derived from.
== Background ==
OpenNLP was started in 2000 by Jason Baldridge and Gann Bierner while they were graduate students in the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. OpenNLP, broadly speaking, was meant to be a high-level organizational unit for various open source software packages for natural language processing; more practically, it provided a high-level package name for various Java packages of the form opennlp.*. The first OpenNLP software package was the Grok natural language parsing toolkit, which was also the genesis of what is now called the OpenNLP Toolkit. The software released on the OpenNLP sourceforge site (started in 2000, along with Grok) was simply a set of interfaces defined in the package opennlp.common and referred to as the OpenNLP Java API. The actual implementations of natural language processing components were provided in Grok, along with code for sentence parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammar. This code was used heavily in both Baldridge's and Biern
er's dissertations. The first paper that used Grok, and especially the components that would become the OpenNLP Toolkit is [[http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/jbaldrid/papers/hockenmaier_etal_ESSLLI2000.pdf|Hockenmaier, Bierner and Baldridge (2000)]] (later updated as the journal article [[http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/jbaldrid/papers/HockenmaierEtal2004.pdf|Hockenmaier, Bierner, and Baldridge (2004)]]).
In 2003, it was decided to remove the NLP infrastructure from Grok as there was a clear separation between the basic text processing components and the syntactic and semantic analysis components. At the same time, Grok was rebranded as OpenCCG (openccg.sf.net). The final release of the OpenNLP Java API was made in March 2003; the new OpenNLP Toolkit was created from the API and the Grok text processing components, with version 1.0 being released in April 2004. The OpenNLP Toolkit and OpenCCG have evolved independently since then and have mostly independent and active developer and user communities. OpenCCG is primarily used in the academic community, while OpenNLP has considerable use in both academia and industry. As in indication of the academic impact of OpenNLP, a search on Google scholar (done in March 2010) returned about 650 publications citing the package. Some of these include the OpenNLP website and a few non-publications plus some self-citations. Based on a scan of
these results, we estimate that about 500 actual publications have used OpenNLP in their work, and there are an addition 50 or so quasi-publications like surveys and instruction manuals.
The activity level of the OpenNLP project has fluctuated over that past 10+ years, with a large uptick in the last two years especially. Most recently, due both to the availability of new documentation and the release of version 1.5 , there have been many more downloads and page views for the OpenNLP project. In fact, September 2010 had the most downloads (1,561) and project web hits (226,391) of any month since the project's beginning in 2000, and October is keeping pacing with that figure so far. As a result, OpenNLP has gone from being in the 2000th to 4000th ranked project (between January and May, 2010) to being ranked 570, 314, 181 and 439 for July, August, September, and October respectively. Full details are available on the Sourceforge statistics page for OpenNLP. (There are 240,000 projects hosted on SourceForge, though this figure includes many, many projects that never actually get started: it seems that about 7-10% of these are stable, active projects base
d on a review done in 2007.)
== Rationale ==
OpenNLP fills a significant gap at the ASF in regards to human language processing tools. While Lucene/Solr, UIMA and Mahout all have some tools in this area, none of them are solely focused on tools specifically for working with natural language like OpenNLP.
== Initial Goals ==
The initial goals of the proposed project are:
* Bring the community together at the ASF and make the development process transparent for them
* Write user documentation about all major components
* Automated build including train and evaluate regression tests
* Produce an Incubating release
== Current Status ==
=== Meritocracy ===
Some of the initial committers are familiar with Apache's idea of meritocracy, others aren't. We will get everybody on the same level as part of the incubation process.
=== Community ===
OpenNLP already has a considerable user base, both in industry and academia.
=== Core Developers ===
See the initial committer list.
=== Alignment ===
OpenNLP has tie-ins with several existing Apache projects. We have been distributing wrappers for UIMA for some time now (two UIMA committers also contribute to OpenNLP). We expect this collaboration to strengthen further after our move to Apache.
Another obvious connection exists to some of the projects under the Lucene umbrella. On the one hand, projects like Solr may benefit from the OpenNLP analysis capabilities to create specialized search for particular domains. On the other, OpenNLP may benefit from the machine learning code that is being developed in Mahout, and maybe get some people from that community to lend a hand.
== Known Risks ==
=== Orphaned products ===
The project has been around for quite a number of years already, it has a well-established user community and a diverse set of committers.
=== Inexperience with Open Source ===
OpenNLP has been an open source project for quite some time. Many of the developers are already familiar with both open source in general and the ASF in particular.
=== Homogenous Developers ===
The current group of developers is very diverse, no two developers work for the same organization.
=== Reliance on Salaried Developers ===
Most of the developers are not paid to work on OpenNLP, so there is little reliance on salaried developers.
=== Relationships with Other Apache Products ===
NLP is often used in search and other algorithms that work with unstructured data, thus OpenNLP is likely to be useful to the Lucene and Solr communities. It also aligns nicely with both Mahout and UIMA.
=== A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand ===
We think the project aligns nicely with the goals of the ASF to disseminate source code to the public free of charge. NLP has long been the subject of cutting edge research, but is often lacking in community and shared knowledge. We believe that by bringing OpenNLP to the ASF, the Apache brand will help deliver NLP capabilities to a much larger audience and likewise a cutting edge project like OpenNLP can further the ASF brand by providing users with tried and true, as well as new, natural language processing capabilities.
== Documentation ==
*http://opennlp.sourceforge.net/README.html
*http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/opennlp/index.php?title=Main_Page
== Initial Source ==
The source code is maintained in two CVS repositories on SourceForge.
OpenNLP Maxent:http://maxent.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/maxent/
OpenNLP Tools and OpenNLP UIMA:http://opennlp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/opennlp/
== Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan ==
The OpenNLP source code is already open source under the AL 2.0.
== External Dependencies ==
||'''Library''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''License''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Description''' ||
||JWNL ||||<style="text-align: center;">BSD ||||<style="text-align: center;">Java Wordnet Library ||
||JUnit ||||<style="text-align: center;">CPL ||||<style="text-align: center;">Unit Testing Framework ||
||UIMA ||||<style="text-align: center;">AL 2.0 ||||<style="text-align: center;">Unstructured Information Management Architecture ||
== Cryptography ==
OpenNLP neither provides nor uses any cryptography.
== Required Resources ==
=== Mailing lists ===
* opennlp-dev
* opennlp-private
* opennlp-user
* opennlp-commits
=== Subversion Directory ===
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/opennlp
=== Issue Tracking ===
Jira: OPENNLP
=== Other Resources ===
== Initial Committers ==
||'''Name''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Email''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''CLA''' ||
||Thilo Goetz ||||<style="text-align: center;"> twgoetz@apache.org ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
||Grant Ingersoll ||||<style="text-align: center;"> gsingers@apache.org ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
||Jörn Kottmann ||||<style="text-align: center;"> joern@apache.org ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
||Thomas Morton ||||<style="text-align: center;"> tsmorton@gmail.com ||||<style="text-align: center;">no ||
||William Silva ||||<style="text-align: center;"> william.colen@gmail.com ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
||Jason Baldridge ||||<style="text-align: center;"> jasonbaldridge@gmail.com ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
||James Kosin ||||<style="text-align: center;"> james.kosin@gmail.com ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
== Affiliations ==
||'''Name''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Affiliation''' ||
||Thilo Goetz ||||<style="text-align: center;">IBM ||
||Grant Ingersoll ||||<style="text-align: center;">Lucid Imagination ||
||Jörn Kottmann ||||<style="text-align: center;">Infopaq International A/S ||
||Thomas Morton ||||<style="text-align: center;">Comcast Corporation ||
||William Silva ||||<style="text-align: center;">São Paulo University ||
||Jason Baldridge ||||<style="text-align: center;">The University of Texas at Austin ||
||James Kosin ||||<style="text-align: center;">International Communications Group, Inc. ||
== Sponsors ==
=== Champion ===
Grant Ingersoll
=== Nominated Mentors ===
Isabel Drost
Grant Ingersoll
Benson Margulies
=== Sponsoring Entity ===
The Apache Incubator
Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenNLP for incubation
Posted by Benson Margulies <bi...@gmail.com>.
+1 binding
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Andreas Kuckartz <A....@ping.de> wrote:
> +1 (non-binding)
>
>> lets vote on the acceptance of the OpenNLP Project for incubation
>> at the Apache Incubator.
>>
>> The proposal is on the wiki
>> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenNLPProposal
>> and a copy is included below.
>
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Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenNLP for incubation
Posted by Andreas Kuckartz <A....@ping.de>.
+1 (non-binding)
> lets vote on the acceptance of the OpenNLP Project for incubation
> at the Apache Incubator.
>
> The proposal is on the wiki
> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenNLPProposal
> and a copy is included below.
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Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenNLP for incubation
Posted by Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org>.
On Nov 19, 2010, at 4:48 AM, Jörn Kottmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> lets vote on the acceptance of the OpenNLP Project for incubation
> at the Apache Incubator.
>
> The proposal is on the wiki
> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenNLPProposal
> and a copy is included below.
>
> The discussion thread can be found here:
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201011.mbox/%3C4CE4F1F4.3010909@gmail.com%3E
>
> Please cast your votes:
>
> [ ] +1 Accept OpenNLP for incubation
+1 (binding)
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Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenNLP for incubation
Posted by Thilo Götz <tw...@gmx.de>.
On 11/19/2010 10:48, Jörn Kottmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> lets vote on the acceptance of the OpenNLP Project for incubation
> at the Apache Incubator.
>
> The proposal is on the wiki
> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenNLPProposal
> and a copy is included below.
>
> The discussion thread can be found here:
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201011.mbox/%3C4CE4F1F4.3010909@gmail.com%3E
>
>
> Please cast your votes:
>
> [ ] +1 Accept OpenNLP for incubation
> [ ] +0 Don't care
> [ ] -1 Reject for the following reason:
>
+1 (not binding)
--Thilo
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Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenNLP for incubation
Posted by Isabel Drost <is...@apache.org>.
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 Jörn Kottmann <ko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> lets vote on the acceptance of the OpenNLP Project for incubation
> at the Apache Incubator.
>
> The proposal is on the wiki
> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenNLPProposal
> and a copy is included below.
>
> The discussion thread can be found here:
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201011.mbox/%3C4CE4F1F4.3010909@gmail.com%3E
>
> Please cast your votes:
>
> [ ] +1 Accept OpenNLP for incubation
> [ ] +0 Don't care
> [ ] -1 Reject for the following reason:
+1
Isabel
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Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenNLP for incubation
Posted by "Alan D. Cabrera" <li...@toolazydogs.com>.
+1
Regards,
Alan
On Nov 19, 2010, at 1:48 AM, Jörn Kottmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> lets vote on the acceptance of the OpenNLP Project for incubation
> at the Apache Incubator.
>
> The proposal is on the wiki
> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenNLPProposal
> and a copy is included below.
>
> The discussion thread can be found here:
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201011.mbox/%3C4CE4F1F4.3010909@gmail.com%3E
>
> Please cast your votes:
>
> [ ] +1 Accept OpenNLP for incubation
> [ ] +0 Don't care
> [ ] -1 Reject for the following reason:
>
> The vote is open for at least 72 hours.
>
> Thanks!
> Jörn
>
> = OpenNLP Proposal =
> The following is a proposal for a new top-level project within the ASF.
>
> == Abstract ==
> OpenNLP is a Java machine learning toolkit for natural language processing (NLP).
>
> == Proposal ==
> OpenNLP 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. These tasks are usually required to build more advanced text processing services.
>
> The goal of the OpenNLP project will be to create a mature toolkit for the abovementioned tasks. An additional goal is to provide a large number of pre-built models for a variety of languages, as well as the annotated text resources that those models are derived from.
>
> == Background ==
> OpenNLP was started in 2000 by Jason Baldridge and Gann Bierner while they were graduate students in the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. OpenNLP, broadly speaking, was meant to be a high-level organizational unit for various open source software packages for natural language processing; more practically, it provided a high-level package name for various Java packages of the form opennlp.*. The first OpenNLP software package was the Grok natural language parsing toolkit, which was also the genesis of what is now called the OpenNLP Toolkit. The software released on the OpenNLP sourceforge site (started in 2000, along with Grok) was simply a set of interfaces defined in the package opennlp.common and referred to as the OpenNLP Java API. The actual implementations of natural language processing components were provided in Grok, along with code for sentence parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammar. This code was used heavily in both Baldridge's and Biern
> er's dissertations. The first paper that used Grok, and especially the components that would become the OpenNLP Toolkit is [[http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/jbaldrid/papers/hockenmaier_etal_ESSLLI2000.pdf|Hockenmaier, Bierner and Baldridge (2000)]] (later updated as the journal article [[http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/jbaldrid/papers/HockenmaierEtal2004.pdf|Hockenmaier, Bierner, and Baldridge (2004)]]).
>
> In 2003, it was decided to remove the NLP infrastructure from Grok as there was a clear separation between the basic text processing components and the syntactic and semantic analysis components. At the same time, Grok was rebranded as OpenCCG (openccg.sf.net). The final release of the OpenNLP Java API was made in March 2003; the new OpenNLP Toolkit was created from the API and the Grok text processing components, with version 1.0 being released in April 2004. The OpenNLP Toolkit and OpenCCG have evolved independently since then and have mostly independent and active developer and user communities. OpenCCG is primarily used in the academic community, while OpenNLP has considerable use in both academia and industry. As in indication of the academic impact of OpenNLP, a search on Google scholar (done in March 2010) returned about 650 publications citing the package. Some of these include the OpenNLP website and a few non-publications plus some self-citations. Based on a scan of
> these results, we estimate that about 500 actual publications have used OpenNLP in their work, and there are an addition 50 or so quasi-publications like surveys and instruction manuals.
>
> The activity level of the OpenNLP project has fluctuated over that past 10+ years, with a large uptick in the last two years especially. Most recently, due both to the availability of new documentation and the release of version 1.5 , there have been many more downloads and page views for the OpenNLP project. In fact, September 2010 had the most downloads (1,561) and project web hits (226,391) of any month since the project's beginning in 2000, and October is keeping pacing with that figure so far. As a result, OpenNLP has gone from being in the 2000th to 4000th ranked project (between January and May, 2010) to being ranked 570, 314, 181 and 439 for July, August, September, and October respectively. Full details are available on the Sourceforge statistics page for OpenNLP. (There are 240,000 projects hosted on SourceForge, though this figure includes many, many projects that never actually get started: it seems that about 7-10% of these are stable, active projects base
> d on a review done in 2007.)
>
> == Rationale ==
> OpenNLP fills a significant gap at the ASF in regards to human language processing tools. While Lucene/Solr, UIMA and Mahout all have some tools in this area, none of them are solely focused on tools specifically for working with natural language like OpenNLP.
>
> == Initial Goals ==
> The initial goals of the proposed project are:
>
> * Bring the community together at the ASF and make the development process transparent for them
> * Write user documentation about all major components
> * Automated build including train and evaluate regression tests
> * Produce an Incubating release
>
> == Current Status ==
> === Meritocracy ===
> Some of the initial committers are familiar with Apache's idea of meritocracy, others aren't. We will get everybody on the same level as part of the incubation process.
>
> === Community ===
> OpenNLP already has a considerable user base, both in industry and academia.
>
> === Core Developers ===
> See the initial committer list.
>
> === Alignment ===
> OpenNLP has tie-ins with several existing Apache projects. We have been distributing wrappers for UIMA for some time now (two UIMA committers also contribute to OpenNLP). We expect this collaboration to strengthen further after our move to Apache.
>
> Another obvious connection exists to some of the projects under the Lucene umbrella. On the one hand, projects like Solr may benefit from the OpenNLP analysis capabilities to create specialized search for particular domains. On the other, OpenNLP may benefit from the machine learning code that is being developed in Mahout, and maybe get some people from that community to lend a hand.
>
> == Known Risks ==
> === Orphaned products ===
> The project has been around for quite a number of years already, it has a well-established user community and a diverse set of committers.
>
> === Inexperience with Open Source ===
> OpenNLP has been an open source project for quite some time. Many of the developers are already familiar with both open source in general and the ASF in particular.
>
> === Homogenous Developers ===
> The current group of developers is very diverse, no two developers work for the same organization.
>
> === Reliance on Salaried Developers ===
> Most of the developers are not paid to work on OpenNLP, so there is little reliance on salaried developers.
>
> === Relationships with Other Apache Products ===
> NLP is often used in search and other algorithms that work with unstructured data, thus OpenNLP is likely to be useful to the Lucene and Solr communities. It also aligns nicely with both Mahout and UIMA.
>
> === A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand ===
> We think the project aligns nicely with the goals of the ASF to disseminate source code to the public free of charge. NLP has long been the subject of cutting edge research, but is often lacking in community and shared knowledge. We believe that by bringing OpenNLP to the ASF, the Apache brand will help deliver NLP capabilities to a much larger audience and likewise a cutting edge project like OpenNLP can further the ASF brand by providing users with tried and true, as well as new, natural language processing capabilities.
>
> == Documentation ==
> *http://opennlp.sourceforge.net/README.html
> *http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/opennlp/index.php?title=Main_Page
>
> == Initial Source ==
> The source code is maintained in two CVS repositories on SourceForge.
>
> OpenNLP Maxent:http://maxent.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/maxent/
>
> OpenNLP Tools and OpenNLP UIMA:http://opennlp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/opennlp/
>
> == Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan ==
> The OpenNLP source code is already open source under the AL 2.0.
>
> == External Dependencies ==
> ||'''Library''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''License''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Description''' ||
> ||JWNL ||||<style="text-align: center;">BSD ||||<style="text-align: center;">Java Wordnet Library ||
> ||JUnit ||||<style="text-align: center;">CPL ||||<style="text-align: center;">Unit Testing Framework ||
> ||UIMA ||||<style="text-align: center;">AL 2.0 ||||<style="text-align: center;">Unstructured Information Management Architecture ||
>
>
> == Cryptography ==
> OpenNLP neither provides nor uses any cryptography.
>
> == Required Resources ==
> === Mailing lists ===
> * opennlp-dev
> * opennlp-private
> * opennlp-user
> * opennlp-commits
>
> === Subversion Directory ===
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/opennlp
>
> === Issue Tracking ===
> Jira: OPENNLP
>
> === Other Resources ===
> == Initial Committers ==
> ||'''Name''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Email''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''CLA''' ||
> ||Thilo Goetz ||||<style="text-align: center;"> twgoetz@apache.org ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Grant Ingersoll ||||<style="text-align: center;"> gsingers@apache.org ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Jörn Kottmann ||||<style="text-align: center;"> joern@apache.org ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Thomas Morton ||||<style="text-align: center;"> tsmorton@gmail.com ||||<style="text-align: center;">no ||
> ||William Silva ||||<style="text-align: center;"> william.colen@gmail.com ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Jason Baldridge ||||<style="text-align: center;"> jasonbaldridge@gmail.com ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||James Kosin ||||<style="text-align: center;"> james.kosin@gmail.com ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
>
>
> == Affiliations ==
> ||'''Name''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Affiliation''' ||
> ||Thilo Goetz ||||<style="text-align: center;">IBM ||
> ||Grant Ingersoll ||||<style="text-align: center;">Lucid Imagination ||
> ||Jörn Kottmann ||||<style="text-align: center;">Infopaq International A/S ||
> ||Thomas Morton ||||<style="text-align: center;">Comcast Corporation ||
> ||William Silva ||||<style="text-align: center;">São Paulo University ||
> ||Jason Baldridge ||||<style="text-align: center;">The University of Texas at Austin ||
> ||James Kosin ||||<style="text-align: center;">International Communications Group, Inc. ||
>
>
> == Sponsors ==
> === Champion ===
> Grant Ingersoll
>
> === Nominated Mentors ===
> Isabel Drost
>
> Grant Ingersoll
>
> Benson Margulies
>
>
>
> === Sponsoring Entity ===
> The Apache Incubator
>
>
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Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenNLP for incubation
Posted by Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com>.
[x] +1 Accept OpenNLP for incubation (non-binding) -Marshall Schor
On 11/19/2010 4:48 AM, Jörn Kottmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> lets vote on the acceptance of the OpenNLP Project for incubation
> at the Apache Incubator.
>
> The proposal is on the wiki
> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenNLPProposal
> and a copy is included below.
>
> The discussion thread can be found here:
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201011.mbox/%3C4CE4F1F4.3010909@gmail.com%3E
>
>
> Please cast your votes:
>
> [ ] +1 Accept OpenNLP for incubation
> [ ] +0 Don't care
> [ ] -1 Reject for the following reason:
>
> The vote is open for at least 72 hours.
>
> Thanks!
> Jörn
>
> = OpenNLP Proposal =
> The following is a proposal for a new top-level project within the ASF.
>
> == Abstract ==
> OpenNLP is a Java machine learning toolkit for natural language processing (NLP).
>
> == Proposal ==
> OpenNLP 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. These tasks are usually
> required to build more advanced text processing services.
>
> The goal of the OpenNLP project will be to create a mature toolkit for the
> abovementioned tasks. An additional goal is to provide a large number of
> pre-built models for a variety of languages, as well as the annotated text
> resources that those models are derived from.
>
> == Background ==
> OpenNLP was started in 2000 by Jason Baldridge and Gann Bierner while they
> were graduate students in the Division of Informatics at the University of
> Edinburgh. OpenNLP, broadly speaking, was meant to be a high-level
> organizational unit for various open source software packages for natural
> language processing; more practically, it provided a high-level package name
> for various Java packages of the form opennlp.*. The first OpenNLP software
> package was the Grok natural language parsing toolkit, which was also the
> genesis of what is now called the OpenNLP Toolkit. The software released on
> the OpenNLP sourceforge site (started in 2000, along with Grok) was simply a
> set of interfaces defined in the package opennlp.common and referred to as the
> OpenNLP Java API. The actual implementations of natural language processing
> components were provided in Grok, along with code for sentence parsing with
> Combinatory Categorial Grammar. This code was used heavily in both Baldridge's
> and Biern
> er's dissertations. The first paper that used Grok, and especially the
> components that would become the OpenNLP Toolkit is
> [[http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/jbaldrid/papers/hockenmaier_etal_ESSLLI2000.pdf|Hockenmaier,
> Bierner and Baldridge (2000)]] (later updated as the journal article
> [[http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/jbaldrid/papers/HockenmaierEtal2004.pdf|Hockenmaier,
> Bierner, and Baldridge (2004)]]).
>
> In 2003, it was decided to remove the NLP infrastructure from Grok as there
> was a clear separation between the basic text processing components and the
> syntactic and semantic analysis components. At the same time, Grok was
> rebranded as OpenCCG (openccg.sf.net). The final release of the OpenNLP Java
> API was made in March 2003; the new OpenNLP Toolkit was created from the API
> and the Grok text processing components, with version 1.0 being released in
> April 2004. The OpenNLP Toolkit and OpenCCG have evolved independently since
> then and have mostly independent and active developer and user communities.
> OpenCCG is primarily used in the academic community, while OpenNLP has
> considerable use in both academia and industry. As in indication of the
> academic impact of OpenNLP, a search on Google scholar (done in March 2010)
> returned about 650 publications citing the package. Some of these include the
> OpenNLP website and a few non-publications plus some self-citations. Based on
> a scan of
> these results, we estimate that about 500 actual publications have used
> OpenNLP in their work, and there are an addition 50 or so quasi-publications
> like surveys and instruction manuals.
>
> The activity level of the OpenNLP project has fluctuated over that past 10+
> years, with a large uptick in the last two years especially. Most recently,
> due both to the availability of new documentation and the release of version
> 1.5 , there have been many more downloads and page views for the OpenNLP
> project. In fact, September 2010 had the most downloads (1,561) and project
> web hits (226,391) of any month since the project's beginning in 2000, and
> October is keeping pacing with that figure so far. As a result, OpenNLP has
> gone from being in the 2000th to 4000th ranked project (between January and
> May, 2010) to being ranked 570, 314, 181 and 439 for July, August, September,
> and October respectively. Full details are available on the Sourceforge
> statistics page for OpenNLP. (There are 240,000 projects hosted on
> SourceForge, though this figure includes many, many projects that never
> actually get started: it seems that about 7-10% of these are stable, active
> projects base
> d on a review done in 2007.)
>
> == Rationale ==
> OpenNLP fills a significant gap at the ASF in regards to human language
> processing tools. While Lucene/Solr, UIMA and Mahout all have some tools in
> this area, none of them are solely focused on tools specifically for working
> with natural language like OpenNLP.
>
> == Initial Goals ==
> The initial goals of the proposed project are:
>
> * Bring the community together at the ASF and make the development process
> transparent for them
> * Write user documentation about all major components
> * Automated build including train and evaluate regression tests
> * Produce an Incubating release
>
> == Current Status ==
> === Meritocracy ===
> Some of the initial committers are familiar with Apache's idea of meritocracy,
> others aren't. We will get everybody on the same level as part of the
> incubation process.
>
> === Community ===
> OpenNLP already has a considerable user base, both in industry and academia.
>
> === Core Developers ===
> See the initial committer list.
>
> === Alignment ===
> OpenNLP has tie-ins with several existing Apache projects. We have been
> distributing wrappers for UIMA for some time now (two UIMA committers also
> contribute to OpenNLP). We expect this collaboration to strengthen further
> after our move to Apache.
>
> Another obvious connection exists to some of the projects under the Lucene
> umbrella. On the one hand, projects like Solr may benefit from the OpenNLP
> analysis capabilities to create specialized search for particular domains. On
> the other, OpenNLP may benefit from the machine learning code that is being
> developed in Mahout, and maybe get some people from that community to lend a
> hand.
>
> == Known Risks ==
> === Orphaned products ===
> The project has been around for quite a number of years already, it has a
> well-established user community and a diverse set of committers.
>
> === Inexperience with Open Source ===
> OpenNLP has been an open source project for quite some time. Many of the
> developers are already familiar with both open source in general and the ASF
> in particular.
>
> === Homogenous Developers ===
> The current group of developers is very diverse, no two developers work for
> the same organization.
>
> === Reliance on Salaried Developers ===
> Most of the developers are not paid to work on OpenNLP, so there is little
> reliance on salaried developers.
>
> === Relationships with Other Apache Products ===
> NLP is often used in search and other algorithms that work with unstructured
> data, thus OpenNLP is likely to be useful to the Lucene and Solr communities.
> It also aligns nicely with both Mahout and UIMA.
>
> === A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand ===
> We think the project aligns nicely with the goals of the ASF to disseminate
> source code to the public free of charge. NLP has long been the subject of
> cutting edge research, but is often lacking in community and shared
> knowledge. We believe that by bringing OpenNLP to the ASF, the Apache brand
> will help deliver NLP capabilities to a much larger audience and likewise a
> cutting edge project like OpenNLP can further the ASF brand by providing users
> with tried and true, as well as new, natural language processing capabilities.
>
> == Documentation ==
> *http://opennlp.sourceforge.net/README.html
> *http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/opennlp/index.php?title=Main_Page
>
> == Initial Source ==
> The source code is maintained in two CVS repositories on SourceForge.
>
> OpenNLP Maxent:http://maxent.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/maxent/
>
> OpenNLP Tools and OpenNLP UIMA:http://opennlp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/opennlp/
>
> == Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan ==
> The OpenNLP source code is already open source under the AL 2.0.
>
> == External Dependencies ==
> ||'''Library''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''License'''
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Description''' ||
> ||JWNL ||||<style="text-align: center;">BSD ||||<style="text-align:
> center;">Java Wordnet Library ||
> ||JUnit ||||<style="text-align: center;">CPL ||||<style="text-align:
> center;">Unit Testing Framework ||
> ||UIMA ||||<style="text-align: center;">AL 2.0 ||||<style="text-align:
> center;">Unstructured Information Management Architecture ||
>
>
> == Cryptography ==
> OpenNLP neither provides nor uses any cryptography.
>
> == Required Resources ==
> === Mailing lists ===
> * opennlp-dev
> * opennlp-private
> * opennlp-user
> * opennlp-commits
>
> === Subversion Directory ===
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/opennlp
>
> === Issue Tracking ===
> Jira: OPENNLP
>
> === Other Resources ===
> == Initial Committers ==
> ||'''Name''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Email'''
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''CLA''' ||
> ||Thilo Goetz ||||<style="text-align: center;"> twgoetz@apache.org
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Grant Ingersoll ||||<style="text-align: center;"> gsingers@apache.org
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Jörn Kottmann ||||<style="text-align: center;"> joern@apache.org
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Thomas Morton ||||<style="text-align: center;"> tsmorton@gmail.com
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">no ||
> ||William Silva ||||<style="text-align: center;"> william.colen@gmail.com
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Jason Baldridge ||||<style="text-align: center;"> jasonbaldridge@gmail.com
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||James Kosin ||||<style="text-align: center;"> james.kosin@gmail.com
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
>
>
> == Affiliations ==
> ||'''Name''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Affiliation''' ||
> ||Thilo Goetz ||||<style="text-align: center;">IBM ||
> ||Grant Ingersoll ||||<style="text-align: center;">Lucid Imagination ||
> ||Jörn Kottmann ||||<style="text-align: center;">Infopaq International A/S ||
> ||Thomas Morton ||||<style="text-align: center;">Comcast Corporation ||
> ||William Silva ||||<style="text-align: center;">São Paulo University ||
> ||Jason Baldridge ||||<style="text-align: center;">The University of Texas at
> Austin ||
> ||James Kosin ||||<style="text-align: center;">International Communications
> Group, Inc. ||
>
>
> == Sponsors ==
> === Champion ===
> Grant Ingersoll
>
> === Nominated Mentors ===
> Isabel Drost
>
> Grant Ingersoll
>
> Benson Margulies
>
>
>
> === Sponsoring Entity ===
> The Apache Incubator
>
>
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Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenNLP for incubation
Posted by Otis Gospodnetic <ot...@yahoo.com>.
+1, obviously!
Otis
----- Original Message ----
> From: Jörn Kottmann <ko...@gmail.com>
> To: general@incubator.apache.org
> Sent: Fri, November 19, 2010 4:48:39 AM
> Subject: [VOTE] Accept OpenNLP for incubation
>
> Hi,
>
> lets vote on the acceptance of the OpenNLP Project for incubation
> at the Apache Incubator.
>
> The proposal is on the wiki
> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenNLPProposal
> and a copy is included below.
>
> The discussion thread can be found here:
>http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201011.mbox/%3C4CE4F1F4.3010909@gmail.com%3E
>E
>
> Please cast your votes:
>
> [ ] +1 Accept OpenNLP for incubation
> [ ] +0 Don't care
> [ ] -1 Reject for the following reason:
>
> The vote is open for at least 72 hours.
>
> Thanks!
> Jörn
>
> = OpenNLP Proposal =
> The following is a proposal for a new top-level project within the ASF.
>
> == Abstract ==
> OpenNLP is a Java machine learning toolkit for natural language processing
>(NLP).
>
> == Proposal ==
> OpenNLP 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. These tasks are usually
>required to build more advanced text processing services.
>
> The goal of the OpenNLP project will be to create a mature toolkit for the
>abovementioned tasks. An additional goal is to provide a large number of
>pre-built models for a variety of languages, as well as the annotated text
>resources that those models are derived from.
>
> == Background ==
> OpenNLP was started in 2000 by Jason Baldridge and Gann Bierner while they
>were graduate students in the Division of Informatics at the University of
>Edinburgh. OpenNLP, broadly speaking, was meant to be a high-level
>organizational unit for various open source software packages for natural
>language processing; more practically, it provided a high-level package name for
>various Java packages of the form opennlp.*. The first OpenNLP software package
>was the Grok natural language parsing toolkit, which was also the genesis of
>what is now called the OpenNLP Toolkit. The software released on the OpenNLP
>sourceforge site (started in 2000, along with Grok) was simply a set of
>interfaces defined in the package opennlp.common and referred to as the OpenNLP
>Java API. The actual implementations of natural language processing components
>were provided in Grok, along with code for sentence parsing with Combinatory
>Categorial Grammar. This code was used heavily in both Baldridge's and Biern
> er's dissertations. The first paper that used Grok, and especially the
>components that would become the OpenNLP Toolkit is
>[[http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/jbaldrid/papers/hockenmaier_etal_ESSLLI2000.pdf|Hockenmaier,
> Bierner and Baldridge (2000)]] (later updated as the journal article
>[[http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/jbaldrid/papers/HockenmaierEtal2004.pdf|Hockenmaier,
> Bierner, and Baldridge (2004)]]).
>
> In 2003, it was decided to remove the NLP infrastructure from Grok as there
>was a clear separation between the basic text processing components and the
>syntactic and semantic analysis components. At the same time, Grok was
>rebranded as OpenCCG (openccg.sf.net). The final release of the OpenNLP Java
>API was made in March 2003; the new OpenNLP Toolkit was created from the API
>and the Grok text processing components, with version 1.0 being released in
>April 2004. The OpenNLP Toolkit and OpenCCG have evolved independently since
>then and have mostly independent and active developer and user communities.
>OpenCCG is primarily used in the academic community, while OpenNLP has
>considerable use in both academia and industry. As in indication of the
>academic impact of OpenNLP, a search on Google scholar (done in March 2010)
>returned about 650 publications citing the package. Some of these include the
>OpenNLP website and a few non-publications plus some self-citations. Based on a
>scan of
> these results, we estimate that about 500 actual publications have used
>OpenNLP in their work, and there are an addition 50 or so quasi-publications
>like surveys and instruction manuals.
>
> The activity level of the OpenNLP project has fluctuated over that past 10+
>years, with a large uptick in the last two years especially. Most recently, due
>both to the availability of new documentation and the release of version 1.5 ,
>there have been many more downloads and page views for the OpenNLP project. In
>fact, September 2010 had the most downloads (1,561) and project web hits
>(226,391) of any month since the project's beginning in 2000, and October is
>keeping pacing with that figure so far. As a result, OpenNLP has gone from
>being in the 2000th to 4000th ranked project (between January and May, 2010) to
>being ranked 570, 314, 181 and 439 for July, August, September, and October
>respectively. Full details are available on the Sourceforge statistics page for
>OpenNLP. (There are 240,000 projects hosted on SourceForge, though this figure
>includes many, many projects that never actually get started: it seems that
>about 7-10% of these are stable, active projects base
> d on a review done in 2007.)
>
> == Rationale ==
> OpenNLP fills a significant gap at the ASF in regards to human language
>processing tools. While Lucene/Solr, UIMA and Mahout all have some tools in
>this area, none of them are solely focused on tools specifically for working
>with natural language like OpenNLP.
>
> == Initial Goals ==
> The initial goals of the proposed project are:
>
> * Bring the community together at the ASF and make the development process
>transparent for them
> * Write user documentation about all major components
> * Automated build including train and evaluate regression tests
> * Produce an Incubating release
>
> == Current Status ==
> === Meritocracy ===
> Some of the initial committers are familiar with Apache's idea of meritocracy,
>others aren't. We will get everybody on the same level as part of the
>incubation process.
>
> === Community ===
> OpenNLP already has a considerable user base, both in industry and academia.
>
> === Core Developers ===
> See the initial committer list.
>
> === Alignment ===
> OpenNLP has tie-ins with several existing Apache projects. We have been
>distributing wrappers for UIMA for some time now (two UIMA committers also
>contribute to OpenNLP). We expect this collaboration to strengthen further
>after our move to Apache.
>
> Another obvious connection exists to some of the projects under the Lucene
>umbrella. On the one hand, projects like Solr may benefit from the OpenNLP
>analysis capabilities to create specialized search for particular domains. On
>the other, OpenNLP may benefit from the machine learning code that is being
>developed in Mahout, and maybe get some people from that community to lend a
>hand.
>
> == Known Risks ==
> === Orphaned products ===
> The project has been around for quite a number of years already, it has a
>well-established user community and a diverse set of committers.
>
> === Inexperience with Open Source ===
> OpenNLP has been an open source project for quite some time. Many of the
>developers are already familiar with both open source in general and the ASF in
>particular.
>
> === Homogenous Developers ===
> The current group of developers is very diverse, no two developers work for
>the same organization.
>
> === Reliance on Salaried Developers ===
> Most of the developers are not paid to work on OpenNLP, so there is little
>reliance on salaried developers.
>
> === Relationships with Other Apache Products ===
> NLP is often used in search and other algorithms that work with unstructured
>data, thus OpenNLP is likely to be useful to the Lucene and Solr communities.
>It also aligns nicely with both Mahout and UIMA.
>
> === A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand ===
> We think the project aligns nicely with the goals of the ASF to disseminate
>source code to the public free of charge. NLP has long been the subject of
>cutting edge research, but is often lacking in community and shared knowledge.
>We believe that by bringing OpenNLP to the ASF, the Apache brand will help
>deliver NLP capabilities to a much larger audience and likewise a cutting edge
>project like OpenNLP can further the ASF brand by providing users with tried
>and true, as well as new, natural language processing capabilities.
>
> == Documentation ==
> *http://opennlp.sourceforge.net/README.html
> *http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/opennlp/index.php?title=Main_Page
>
> == Initial Source ==
> The source code is maintained in two CVS repositories on SourceForge.
>
> OpenNLP Maxent:http://maxent.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/maxent/
>
> OpenNLP Tools and OpenNLP
>UIMA:http://opennlp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/opennlp/
>
> == Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan ==
> The OpenNLP source code is already open source under the AL 2.0.
>
> == External Dependencies ==
> ||'''Library''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''License'''
>||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Description''' ||
> ||JWNL ||||<style="text-align: center;">BSD ||||<style="text-align:
>center;">Java Wordnet Library ||
> ||JUnit ||||<style="text-align: center;">CPL ||||<style="text-align:
>center;">Unit Testing Framework ||
> ||UIMA ||||<style="text-align: center;">AL 2.0 ||||<style="text-align:
>center;">Unstructured Information Management Architecture ||
>
>
> == Cryptography ==
> OpenNLP neither provides nor uses any cryptography.
>
> == Required Resources ==
> === Mailing lists ===
> * opennlp-dev
> * opennlp-private
> * opennlp-user
> * opennlp-commits
>
> === Subversion Directory ===
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/opennlp
>
> === Issue Tracking ===
> Jira: OPENNLP
>
> === Other Resources ===
> == Initial Committers ==
> ||'''Name''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Email'''
>||||<style="text-align: center;">'''CLA''' ||
> ||Thilo Goetz ||||<style="text-align: center;"> twgoetz@apache.org
>||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Grant Ingersoll ||||<style="text-align: center;"> gsingers@apache.org
>||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Jörn Kottmann ||||<style="text-align: center;"> joern@apache.org
>||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Thomas Morton ||||<style="text-align: center;"> tsmorton@gmail.com
>||||<style="text-align: center;">no ||
> ||William Silva ||||<style="text-align: center;"> william.colen@gmail.com
>||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Jason Baldridge ||||<style="text-align: center;"> jasonbaldridge@gmail.com
>||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||James Kosin ||||<style="text-align: center;"> james.kosin@gmail.com
>||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
>
>
> == Affiliations ==
> ||'''Name''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Affiliation''' ||
> ||Thilo Goetz ||||<style="text-align: center;">IBM ||
> ||Grant Ingersoll ||||<style="text-align: center;">Lucid Imagination ||
> ||Jörn Kottmann ||||<style="text-align: center;">Infopaq International A/S
||
> ||Thomas Morton ||||<style="text-align: center;">Comcast Corporation ||
> ||William Silva ||||<style="text-align: center;">São Paulo University ||
> ||Jason Baldridge ||||<style="text-align: center;">The University of Texas at
>Austin ||
> ||James Kosin ||||<style="text-align: center;">International Communications
>Group, Inc. ||
>
>
> == Sponsors ==
> === Champion ===
> Grant Ingersoll
>
> === Nominated Mentors ===
> Isabel Drost
>
> Grant Ingersoll
>
> Benson Margulies
>
>
>
> === Sponsoring Entity ===
> The Apache Incubator
>
>
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Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenNLP for incubation
Posted by Tommaso Teofili <to...@gmail.com>.
+1 [not binding]
Tommaso
2010/11/19 Jörn Kottmann <ko...@gmail.com>
> Hi,
>
> lets vote on the acceptance of the OpenNLP Project for incubation
> at the Apache Incubator.
>
> The proposal is on the wiki
> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenNLPProposal
> and a copy is included below.
>
> The discussion thread can be found here:
>
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201011.mbox/%3C4CE4F1F4.3010909@gmail.com%3E
>
> Please cast your votes:
>
> [ ] +1 Accept OpenNLP for incubation
> [ ] +0 Don't care
> [ ] -1 Reject for the following reason:
>
> The vote is open for at least 72 hours.
>
> Thanks!
> Jörn
>
> = OpenNLP Proposal =
> The following is a proposal for a new top-level project within the ASF.
>
> == Abstract ==
> OpenNLP is a Java machine learning toolkit for natural language processing
> (NLP).
>
> == Proposal ==
> OpenNLP 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. These tasks are usually
> required to build more advanced text processing services.
>
> The goal of the OpenNLP project will be to create a mature toolkit for the
> abovementioned tasks. An additional goal is to provide a large number of
> pre-built models for a variety of languages, as well as the annotated text
> resources that those models are derived from.
>
> == Background ==
> OpenNLP was started in 2000 by Jason Baldridge and Gann Bierner while they
> were graduate students in the Division of Informatics at the University of
> Edinburgh. OpenNLP, broadly speaking, was meant to be a high-level
> organizational unit for various open source software packages for natural
> language processing; more practically, it provided a high-level package name
> for various Java packages of the form opennlp.*. The first OpenNLP software
> package was the Grok natural language parsing toolkit, which was also the
> genesis of what is now called the OpenNLP Toolkit. The software released on
> the OpenNLP sourceforge site (started in 2000, along with Grok) was simply a
> set of interfaces defined in the package opennlp.common and referred to as
> the OpenNLP Java API. The actual implementations of natural language
> processing components were provided in Grok, along with code for sentence
> parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammar. This code was used heavily in
> both Baldridge's and Biern
> er's dissertations. The first paper that used Grok, and especially the
> components that would become the OpenNLP Toolkit is [[
> http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/jbaldrid/papers/hockenmaier_etal_ESSLLI2000.pdf|Hockenmaier<http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/jbaldrid/papers/hockenmaier_etal_ESSLLI2000.pdf%7CHockenmaier>,
> Bierner and Baldridge (2000)]] (later updated as the journal article [[
> http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/jbaldrid/papers/HockenmaierEtal2004.pdf|Hockenmaier<http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/jbaldrid/papers/HockenmaierEtal2004.pdf%7CHockenmaier>,
> Bierner, and Baldridge (2004)]]).
>
> In 2003, it was decided to remove the NLP infrastructure from Grok as there
> was a clear separation between the basic text processing components and the
> syntactic and semantic analysis components. At the same time, Grok was
> rebranded as OpenCCG (openccg.sf.net). The final release of the OpenNLP
> Java API was made in March 2003; the new OpenNLP Toolkit was created from
> the API and the Grok text processing components, with version 1.0 being
> released in April 2004. The OpenNLP Toolkit and OpenCCG have evolved
> independently since then and have mostly independent and active developer
> and user communities. OpenCCG is primarily used in the academic community,
> while OpenNLP has considerable use in both academia and industry. As in
> indication of the academic impact of OpenNLP, a search on Google scholar
> (done in March 2010) returned about 650 publications citing the package.
> Some of these include the OpenNLP website and a few non-publications plus
> some self-citations. Based on a scan of
> these results, we estimate that about 500 actual publications have used
> OpenNLP in their work, and there are an addition 50 or so quasi-publications
> like surveys and instruction manuals.
>
> The activity level of the OpenNLP project has fluctuated over that past 10+
> years, with a large uptick in the last two years especially. Most recently,
> due both to the availability of new documentation and the release of version
> 1.5 , there have been many more downloads and page views for the OpenNLP
> project. In fact, September 2010 had the most downloads (1,561) and project
> web hits (226,391) of any month since the project's beginning in 2000, and
> October is keeping pacing with that figure so far. As a result, OpenNLP has
> gone from being in the 2000th to 4000th ranked project (between January and
> May, 2010) to being ranked 570, 314, 181 and 439 for July, August,
> September, and October respectively. Full details are available on the
> Sourceforge statistics page for OpenNLP. (There are 240,000 projects hosted
> on SourceForge, though this figure includes many, many projects that never
> actually get started: it seems that about 7-10% of these are stable, active
> projects base
> d on a review done in 2007.)
>
> == Rationale ==
> OpenNLP fills a significant gap at the ASF in regards to human language
> processing tools. While Lucene/Solr, UIMA and Mahout all have some tools in
> this area, none of them are solely focused on tools specifically for working
> with natural language like OpenNLP.
>
> == Initial Goals ==
> The initial goals of the proposed project are:
>
> * Bring the community together at the ASF and make the development process
> transparent for them
> * Write user documentation about all major components
> * Automated build including train and evaluate regression tests
> * Produce an Incubating release
>
> == Current Status ==
> === Meritocracy ===
> Some of the initial committers are familiar with Apache's idea of
> meritocracy, others aren't. We will get everybody on the same level as part
> of the incubation process.
>
> === Community ===
> OpenNLP already has a considerable user base, both in industry and
> academia.
>
> === Core Developers ===
> See the initial committer list.
>
> === Alignment ===
> OpenNLP has tie-ins with several existing Apache projects. We have been
> distributing wrappers for UIMA for some time now (two UIMA committers also
> contribute to OpenNLP). We expect this collaboration to strengthen further
> after our move to Apache.
>
> Another obvious connection exists to some of the projects under the Lucene
> umbrella. On the one hand, projects like Solr may benefit from the OpenNLP
> analysis capabilities to create specialized search for particular domains.
> On the other, OpenNLP may benefit from the machine learning code that is
> being developed in Mahout, and maybe get some people from that community to
> lend a hand.
>
> == Known Risks ==
> === Orphaned products ===
> The project has been around for quite a number of years already, it has a
> well-established user community and a diverse set of committers.
>
> === Inexperience with Open Source ===
> OpenNLP has been an open source project for quite some time. Many of the
> developers are already familiar with both open source in general and the ASF
> in particular.
>
> === Homogenous Developers ===
> The current group of developers is very diverse, no two developers work for
> the same organization.
>
> === Reliance on Salaried Developers ===
> Most of the developers are not paid to work on OpenNLP, so there is little
> reliance on salaried developers.
>
> === Relationships with Other Apache Products ===
> NLP is often used in search and other algorithms that work with
> unstructured data, thus OpenNLP is likely to be useful to the Lucene and
> Solr communities. It also aligns nicely with both Mahout and UIMA.
>
> === A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand ===
> We think the project aligns nicely with the goals of the ASF to disseminate
> source code to the public free of charge. NLP has long been the subject of
> cutting edge research, but is often lacking in community and shared
> knowledge. We believe that by bringing OpenNLP to the ASF, the Apache brand
> will help deliver NLP capabilities to a much larger audience and likewise a
> cutting edge project like OpenNLP can further the ASF brand by providing
> users with tried and true, as well as new, natural language processing
> capabilities.
>
> == Documentation ==
> *http://opennlp.sourceforge.net/README.html
> *http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/opennlp/index.php?title=Main_Page
>
> == Initial Source ==
> The source code is maintained in two CVS repositories on SourceForge.
>
> OpenNLP Maxent:http://maxent.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/maxent/
>
> OpenNLP Tools and OpenNLP UIMA:
> http://opennlp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/opennlp/
>
> == Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan ==
> The OpenNLP source code is already open source under the AL 2.0.
>
> == External Dependencies ==
> ||'''Library''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''License'''
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Description''' ||
> ||JWNL ||||<style="text-align: center;">BSD ||||<style="text-align:
> center;">Java Wordnet Library ||
> ||JUnit ||||<style="text-align: center;">CPL ||||<style="text-align:
> center;">Unit Testing Framework ||
> ||UIMA ||||<style="text-align: center;">AL 2.0 ||||<style="text-align:
> center;">Unstructured Information Management Architecture ||
>
>
> == Cryptography ==
> OpenNLP neither provides nor uses any cryptography.
>
> == Required Resources ==
> === Mailing lists ===
> * opennlp-dev
> * opennlp-private
> * opennlp-user
> * opennlp-commits
>
> === Subversion Directory ===
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/opennlp
>
> === Issue Tracking ===
> Jira: OPENNLP
>
> === Other Resources ===
> == Initial Committers ==
> ||'''Name''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Email'''
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''CLA''' ||
> ||Thilo Goetz ||||<style="text-align: center;"> twgoetz@apache.org ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Grant Ingersoll ||||<style="text-align: center;"> gsingers@apache.org ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Jörn Kottmann ||||<style="text-align: center;"> joern@apache.org ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Thomas Morton ||||<style="text-align: center;"> tsmorton@gmail.com ||||<style="text-align: center;">no ||
> ||William Silva ||||<style="text-align: center;"> william.colen@gmail.com ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Jason Baldridge ||||<style="text-align: center;">
> jasonbaldridge@gmail.com ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||James Kosin ||||<style="text-align: center;"> james.kosin@gmail.com ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
>
>
> == Affiliations ==
> ||'''Name''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Affiliation''' ||
> ||Thilo Goetz ||||<style="text-align: center;">IBM ||
> ||Grant Ingersoll ||||<style="text-align: center;">Lucid Imagination ||
> ||Jörn Kottmann ||||<style="text-align: center;">Infopaq International A/S
> ||
> ||Thomas Morton ||||<style="text-align: center;">Comcast Corporation ||
> ||William Silva ||||<style="text-align: center;">São Paulo University ||
> ||Jason Baldridge ||||<style="text-align: center;">The University of Texas
> at Austin ||
> ||James Kosin ||||<style="text-align: center;">International Communications
> Group, Inc. ||
>
>
> == Sponsors ==
> === Champion ===
> Grant Ingersoll
>
> === Nominated Mentors ===
> Isabel Drost
>
> Grant Ingersoll
>
> Benson Margulies
>
>
>
> === Sponsoring Entity ===
> The Apache Incubator
>
>
>
[RESULT][VOTE] Accept OpenNLP for incubation
Posted by Jörn Kottmann <ko...@gmail.com>.
The vote passes with the 17 +1 votes (8 binding), no -1 votes.
Binding (8):
Jukka Zitting
Bertrand Delacretaz
Grant Ingersoll
Michael McCandless
Matt Benson
Doug Cutting
Benson Margulies
Alan Cabrera
Non-Binding (9):
Tommaso Teofili
Thilo Götz
Marshall Schor
Nick Kew
Marcel Offermans
Mohammad Nour El-Din
Andreas Kuckartz
Otis Gospodnetic
Isabel Drost
Thanks for voting,
Jörn
On 11/19/10 10:48 AM, Jörn Kottmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> lets vote on the acceptance of the OpenNLP Project for incubation
> at the Apache Incubator.
>
> The proposal is on the wiki
> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenNLPProposal
> and a copy is included below.
>
> The discussion thread can be found here:
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201011.mbox/%3C4CE4F1F4.3010909@gmail.com%3E
>
>
> Please cast your votes:
>
> [ ] +1 Accept OpenNLP for incubation
> [ ] +0 Don't care
> [ ] -1 Reject for the following reason:
>
> The vote is open for at least 72 hours.
>
> Thanks!
> Jörn
>
> = OpenNLP Proposal =
> The following is a proposal for a new top-level project within the ASF.
>
> == Abstract ==
> OpenNLP is a Java machine learning toolkit for natural language
> processing (NLP).
>
> == Proposal ==
> OpenNLP 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.
> These tasks are usually required to build more advanced text
> processing services.
>
> The goal of the OpenNLP project will be to create a mature toolkit for
> the abovementioned tasks. An additional goal is to provide a large
> number of pre-built models for a variety of languages, as well as the
> annotated text resources that those models are derived from.
>
> == Background ==
> OpenNLP was started in 2000 by Jason Baldridge and Gann Bierner while
> they were graduate students in the Division of Informatics at the
> University of Edinburgh. OpenNLP, broadly speaking, was meant to be a
> high-level organizational unit for various open source software
> packages for natural language processing; more practically, it
> provided a high-level package name for various Java packages of the
> form opennlp.*. The first OpenNLP software package was the Grok
> natural language parsing toolkit, which was also the genesis of what
> is now called the OpenNLP Toolkit. The software released on the
> OpenNLP sourceforge site (started in 2000, along with Grok) was simply
> a set of interfaces defined in the package opennlp.common and referred
> to as the OpenNLP Java API. The actual implementations of natural
> language processing components were provided in Grok, along with code
> for sentence parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammar. This code
> was used heavily in both Baldridge's and Biern
> er's dissertations. The first paper that used Grok, and especially the
> components that would become the OpenNLP Toolkit is
> [[http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/jbaldrid/papers/hockenmaier_etal_ESSLLI2000.pdf|Hockenmaier,
> Bierner and Baldridge (2000)]] (later updated as the journal article
> [[http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/jbaldrid/papers/HockenmaierEtal2004.pdf|Hockenmaier,
> Bierner, and Baldridge (2004)]]).
>
> In 2003, it was decided to remove the NLP infrastructure from Grok as
> there was a clear separation between the basic text processing
> components and the syntactic and semantic analysis components. At the
> same time, Grok was rebranded as OpenCCG (openccg.sf.net). The final
> release of the OpenNLP Java API was made in March 2003; the new
> OpenNLP Toolkit was created from the API and the Grok text processing
> components, with version 1.0 being released in April 2004. The OpenNLP
> Toolkit and OpenCCG have evolved independently since then and have
> mostly independent and active developer and user communities. OpenCCG
> is primarily used in the academic community, while OpenNLP has
> considerable use in both academia and industry. As in indication of
> the academic impact of OpenNLP, a search on Google scholar (done in
> March 2010) returned about 650 publications citing the package. Some
> of these include the OpenNLP website and a few non-publications plus
> some self-citations. Based on a scan of
> these results, we estimate that about 500 actual publications have
> used OpenNLP in their work, and there are an addition 50 or so
> quasi-publications like surveys and instruction manuals.
>
> The activity level of the OpenNLP project has fluctuated over that
> past 10+ years, with a large uptick in the last two years especially.
> Most recently, due both to the availability of new documentation and
> the release of version 1.5 , there have been many more downloads and
> page views for the OpenNLP project. In fact, September 2010 had the
> most downloads (1,561) and project web hits (226,391) of any month
> since the project's beginning in 2000, and October is keeping pacing
> with that figure so far. As a result, OpenNLP has gone from being in
> the 2000th to 4000th ranked project (between January and May, 2010) to
> being ranked 570, 314, 181 and 439 for July, August, September, and
> October respectively. Full details are available on the Sourceforge
> statistics page for OpenNLP. (There are 240,000 projects hosted on
> SourceForge, though this figure includes many, many projects that
> never actually get started: it seems that about 7-10% of these are
> stable, active projects base
> d on a review done in 2007.)
>
> == Rationale ==
> OpenNLP fills a significant gap at the ASF in regards to human
> language processing tools. While Lucene/Solr, UIMA and Mahout all
> have some tools in this area, none of them are solely focused on tools
> specifically for working with natural language like OpenNLP.
>
> == Initial Goals ==
> The initial goals of the proposed project are:
>
> * Bring the community together at the ASF and make the development
> process transparent for them
> * Write user documentation about all major components
> * Automated build including train and evaluate regression tests
> * Produce an Incubating release
>
> == Current Status ==
> === Meritocracy ===
> Some of the initial committers are familiar with Apache's idea of
> meritocracy, others aren't. We will get everybody on the same level
> as part of the incubation process.
>
> === Community ===
> OpenNLP already has a considerable user base, both in industry and
> academia.
>
> === Core Developers ===
> See the initial committer list.
>
> === Alignment ===
> OpenNLP has tie-ins with several existing Apache projects. We have
> been distributing wrappers for UIMA for some time now (two UIMA
> committers also contribute to OpenNLP). We expect this collaboration
> to strengthen further after our move to Apache.
>
> Another obvious connection exists to some of the projects under the
> Lucene umbrella. On the one hand, projects like Solr may benefit from
> the OpenNLP analysis capabilities to create specialized search for
> particular domains. On the other, OpenNLP may benefit from the
> machine learning code that is being developed in Mahout, and maybe get
> some people from that community to lend a hand.
>
> == Known Risks ==
> === Orphaned products ===
> The project has been around for quite a number of years already, it
> has a well-established user community and a diverse set of committers.
>
> === Inexperience with Open Source ===
> OpenNLP has been an open source project for quite some time. Many of
> the developers are already familiar with both open source in general
> and the ASF in particular.
>
> === Homogenous Developers ===
> The current group of developers is very diverse, no two developers
> work for the same organization.
>
> === Reliance on Salaried Developers ===
> Most of the developers are not paid to work on OpenNLP, so there is
> little reliance on salaried developers.
>
> === Relationships with Other Apache Products ===
> NLP is often used in search and other algorithms that work with
> unstructured data, thus OpenNLP is likely to be useful to the Lucene
> and Solr communities. It also aligns nicely with both Mahout and UIMA.
>
> === A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand ===
> We think the project aligns nicely with the goals of the ASF to
> disseminate source code to the public free of charge. NLP has long
> been the subject of cutting edge research, but is often lacking in
> community and shared knowledge. We believe that by bringing OpenNLP
> to the ASF, the Apache brand will help deliver NLP capabilities to a
> much larger audience and likewise a cutting edge project like OpenNLP
> can further the ASF brand by providing users with tried and true, as
> well as new, natural language processing capabilities.
>
> == Documentation ==
> *http://opennlp.sourceforge.net/README.html
> *http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/opennlp/index.php?title=Main_Page
>
> == Initial Source ==
> The source code is maintained in two CVS repositories on SourceForge.
>
> OpenNLP Maxent:http://maxent.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/maxent/
>
> OpenNLP Tools and OpenNLP
> UIMA:http://opennlp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/opennlp/
>
> == Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan ==
> The OpenNLP source code is already open source under the AL 2.0.
>
> == External Dependencies ==
> ||'''Library''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''License'''
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Description''' ||
> ||JWNL ||||<style="text-align: center;">BSD ||||<style="text-align:
> center;">Java Wordnet Library ||
> ||JUnit ||||<style="text-align: center;">CPL ||||<style="text-align:
> center;">Unit Testing Framework ||
> ||UIMA ||||<style="text-align: center;">AL 2.0 ||||<style="text-align:
> center;">Unstructured Information Management Architecture ||
>
>
> == Cryptography ==
> OpenNLP neither provides nor uses any cryptography.
>
> == Required Resources ==
> === Mailing lists ===
> * opennlp-dev
> * opennlp-private
> * opennlp-user
> * opennlp-commits
>
> === Subversion Directory ===
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/opennlp
>
> === Issue Tracking ===
> Jira: OPENNLP
>
> === Other Resources ===
> == Initial Committers ==
> ||'''Name''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Email'''
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''CLA''' ||
> ||Thilo Goetz ||||<style="text-align: center;"> twgoetz@apache.org
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Grant Ingersoll ||||<style="text-align: center;">
> gsingers@apache.org ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Jörn Kottmann ||||<style="text-align: center;"> joern@apache.org
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Thomas Morton ||||<style="text-align: center;"> tsmorton@gmail.com
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">no ||
> ||William Silva ||||<style="text-align: center;">
> william.colen@gmail.com ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Jason Baldridge ||||<style="text-align: center;">
> jasonbaldridge@gmail.com ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||James Kosin ||||<style="text-align: center;"> james.kosin@gmail.com
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
>
>
> == Affiliations ==
> ||'''Name''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Affiliation''' ||
> ||Thilo Goetz ||||<style="text-align: center;">IBM ||
> ||Grant Ingersoll ||||<style="text-align: center;">Lucid Imagination ||
> ||Jörn Kottmann ||||<style="text-align: center;">Infopaq International
> A/S ||
> ||Thomas Morton ||||<style="text-align: center;">Comcast Corporation ||
> ||William Silva ||||<style="text-align: center;">São Paulo University ||
> ||Jason Baldridge ||||<style="text-align: center;">The University of
> Texas at Austin ||
> ||James Kosin ||||<style="text-align: center;">International
> Communications Group, Inc. ||
>
>
> == Sponsors ==
> === Champion ===
> Grant Ingersoll
>
> === Nominated Mentors ===
> Isabel Drost
>
> Grant Ingersoll
>
> Benson Margulies
>
>
>
> === Sponsoring Entity ===
> The Apache Incubator
>
>
>
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Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenNLP for incubation
Posted by Bertrand Delacretaz <bd...@apache.org>.
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Jörn Kottmann <ko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> lets vote on the acceptance of the OpenNLP Project for incubation
> at the Apache Incubator.
+1
-Bertrand
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Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenNLP for incubation
Posted by Michael McCandless <lu...@mikemccandless.com>.
+1
Mike
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Jörn Kottmann <ko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> lets vote on the acceptance of the OpenNLP Project for incubation
> at the Apache Incubator.
>
> The proposal is on the wiki
> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenNLPProposal
> and a copy is included below.
>
> The discussion thread can be found here:
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201011.mbox/%3C4CE4F1F4.3010909@gmail.com%3E
>
> Please cast your votes:
>
> [ ] +1 Accept OpenNLP for incubation
> [ ] +0 Don't care
> [ ] -1 Reject for the following reason:
>
> The vote is open for at least 72 hours.
>
> Thanks!
> Jörn
>
> = OpenNLP Proposal =
> The following is a proposal for a new top-level project within the ASF.
>
> == Abstract ==
> OpenNLP is a Java machine learning toolkit for natural language processing
> (NLP).
>
> == Proposal ==
> OpenNLP 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. These tasks are usually
> required to build more advanced text processing services.
>
> The goal of the OpenNLP project will be to create a mature toolkit for the
> abovementioned tasks. An additional goal is to provide a large number of
> pre-built models for a variety of languages, as well as the annotated text
> resources that those models are derived from.
>
> == Background ==
> OpenNLP was started in 2000 by Jason Baldridge and Gann Bierner while they
> were graduate students in the Division of Informatics at the University of
> Edinburgh. OpenNLP, broadly speaking, was meant to be a high-level
> organizational unit for various open source software packages for natural
> language processing; more practically, it provided a high-level package name
> for various Java packages of the form opennlp.*. The first OpenNLP software
> package was the Grok natural language parsing toolkit, which was also the
> genesis of what is now called the OpenNLP Toolkit. The software released on
> the OpenNLP sourceforge site (started in 2000, along with Grok) was simply a
> set of interfaces defined in the package opennlp.common and referred to as
> the OpenNLP Java API. The actual implementations of natural language
> processing components were provided in Grok, along with code for sentence
> parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammar. This code was used heavily in
> both Baldridge's and Biern
> er's dissertations. The first paper that used Grok, and especially the
> components that would become the OpenNLP Toolkit is
> [[http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/jbaldrid/papers/hockenmaier_etal_ESSLLI2000.pdf|Hockenmaier,
> Bierner and Baldridge (2000)]] (later updated as the journal article
> [[http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/jbaldrid/papers/HockenmaierEtal2004.pdf|Hockenmaier,
> Bierner, and Baldridge (2004)]]).
>
> In 2003, it was decided to remove the NLP infrastructure from Grok as there
> was a clear separation between the basic text processing components and the
> syntactic and semantic analysis components. At the same time, Grok was
> rebranded as OpenCCG (openccg.sf.net). The final release of the OpenNLP Java
> API was made in March 2003; the new OpenNLP Toolkit was created from the API
> and the Grok text processing components, with version 1.0 being released in
> April 2004. The OpenNLP Toolkit and OpenCCG have evolved independently since
> then and have mostly independent and active developer and user communities.
> OpenCCG is primarily used in the academic community, while OpenNLP has
> considerable use in both academia and industry. As in indication of the
> academic impact of OpenNLP, a search on Google scholar (done in March 2010)
> returned about 650 publications citing the package. Some of these include
> the OpenNLP website and a few non-publications plus some self-citations.
> Based on a scan of
> these results, we estimate that about 500 actual publications have used
> OpenNLP in their work, and there are an addition 50 or so quasi-publications
> like surveys and instruction manuals.
>
> The activity level of the OpenNLP project has fluctuated over that past 10+
> years, with a large uptick in the last two years especially. Most recently,
> due both to the availability of new documentation and the release of version
> 1.5 , there have been many more downloads and page views for the OpenNLP
> project. In fact, September 2010 had the most downloads (1,561) and project
> web hits (226,391) of any month since the project's beginning in 2000, and
> October is keeping pacing with that figure so far. As a result, OpenNLP has
> gone from being in the 2000th to 4000th ranked project (between January and
> May, 2010) to being ranked 570, 314, 181 and 439 for July, August,
> September, and October respectively. Full details are available on the
> Sourceforge statistics page for OpenNLP. (There are 240,000 projects hosted
> on SourceForge, though this figure includes many, many projects that never
> actually get started: it seems that about 7-10% of these are stable, active
> projects base
> d on a review done in 2007.)
>
> == Rationale ==
> OpenNLP fills a significant gap at the ASF in regards to human language
> processing tools. While Lucene/Solr, UIMA and Mahout all have some tools in
> this area, none of them are solely focused on tools specifically for working
> with natural language like OpenNLP.
>
> == Initial Goals ==
> The initial goals of the proposed project are:
>
> * Bring the community together at the ASF and make the development process
> transparent for them
> * Write user documentation about all major components
> * Automated build including train and evaluate regression tests
> * Produce an Incubating release
>
> == Current Status ==
> === Meritocracy ===
> Some of the initial committers are familiar with Apache's idea of
> meritocracy, others aren't. We will get everybody on the same level as part
> of the incubation process.
>
> === Community ===
> OpenNLP already has a considerable user base, both in industry and academia.
>
> === Core Developers ===
> See the initial committer list.
>
> === Alignment ===
> OpenNLP has tie-ins with several existing Apache projects. We have been
> distributing wrappers for UIMA for some time now (two UIMA committers also
> contribute to OpenNLP). We expect this collaboration to strengthen further
> after our move to Apache.
>
> Another obvious connection exists to some of the projects under the Lucene
> umbrella. On the one hand, projects like Solr may benefit from the OpenNLP
> analysis capabilities to create specialized search for particular domains.
> On the other, OpenNLP may benefit from the machine learning code that is
> being developed in Mahout, and maybe get some people from that community to
> lend a hand.
>
> == Known Risks ==
> === Orphaned products ===
> The project has been around for quite a number of years already, it has a
> well-established user community and a diverse set of committers.
>
> === Inexperience with Open Source ===
> OpenNLP has been an open source project for quite some time. Many of the
> developers are already familiar with both open source in general and the ASF
> in particular.
>
> === Homogenous Developers ===
> The current group of developers is very diverse, no two developers work for
> the same organization.
>
> === Reliance on Salaried Developers ===
> Most of the developers are not paid to work on OpenNLP, so there is little
> reliance on salaried developers.
>
> === Relationships with Other Apache Products ===
> NLP is often used in search and other algorithms that work with unstructured
> data, thus OpenNLP is likely to be useful to the Lucene and Solr
> communities. It also aligns nicely with both Mahout and UIMA.
>
> === A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand ===
> We think the project aligns nicely with the goals of the ASF to disseminate
> source code to the public free of charge. NLP has long been the subject of
> cutting edge research, but is often lacking in community and shared
> knowledge. We believe that by bringing OpenNLP to the ASF, the Apache brand
> will help deliver NLP capabilities to a much larger audience and likewise a
> cutting edge project like OpenNLP can further the ASF brand by providing
> users with tried and true, as well as new, natural language processing
> capabilities.
>
> == Documentation ==
> *http://opennlp.sourceforge.net/README.html
> *http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/opennlp/index.php?title=Main_Page
>
> == Initial Source ==
> The source code is maintained in two CVS repositories on SourceForge.
>
> OpenNLP Maxent:http://maxent.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/maxent/
>
> OpenNLP Tools and OpenNLP
> UIMA:http://opennlp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/opennlp/
>
> == Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan ==
> The OpenNLP source code is already open source under the AL 2.0.
>
> == External Dependencies ==
> ||'''Library''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''License'''
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Description''' ||
> ||JWNL ||||<style="text-align: center;">BSD ||||<style="text-align:
> center;">Java Wordnet Library ||
> ||JUnit ||||<style="text-align: center;">CPL ||||<style="text-align:
> center;">Unit Testing Framework ||
> ||UIMA ||||<style="text-align: center;">AL 2.0 ||||<style="text-align:
> center;">Unstructured Information Management Architecture ||
>
>
> == Cryptography ==
> OpenNLP neither provides nor uses any cryptography.
>
> == Required Resources ==
> === Mailing lists ===
> * opennlp-dev
> * opennlp-private
> * opennlp-user
> * opennlp-commits
>
> === Subversion Directory ===
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/opennlp
>
> === Issue Tracking ===
> Jira: OPENNLP
>
> === Other Resources ===
> == Initial Committers ==
> ||'''Name''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Email'''
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''CLA''' ||
> ||Thilo Goetz ||||<style="text-align: center;"> twgoetz@apache.org
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Grant Ingersoll ||||<style="text-align: center;"> gsingers@apache.org
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Jörn Kottmann ||||<style="text-align: center;"> joern@apache.org
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Thomas Morton ||||<style="text-align: center;"> tsmorton@gmail.com
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">no ||
> ||William Silva ||||<style="text-align: center;"> william.colen@gmail.com
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Jason Baldridge ||||<style="text-align: center;">
> jasonbaldridge@gmail.com ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||James Kosin ||||<style="text-align: center;"> james.kosin@gmail.com
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
>
>
> == Affiliations ==
> ||'''Name''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Affiliation''' ||
> ||Thilo Goetz ||||<style="text-align: center;">IBM ||
> ||Grant Ingersoll ||||<style="text-align: center;">Lucid Imagination ||
> ||Jörn Kottmann ||||<style="text-align: center;">Infopaq International A/S
> ||
> ||Thomas Morton ||||<style="text-align: center;">Comcast Corporation ||
> ||William Silva ||||<style="text-align: center;">São Paulo University ||
> ||Jason Baldridge ||||<style="text-align: center;">The University of Texas
> at Austin ||
> ||James Kosin ||||<style="text-align: center;">International Communications
> Group, Inc. ||
>
>
> == Sponsors ==
> === Champion ===
> Grant Ingersoll
>
> === Nominated Mentors ===
> Isabel Drost
>
> Grant Ingersoll
>
> Benson Margulies
>
>
>
> === Sponsoring Entity ===
> The Apache Incubator
>
>
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Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenNLP for incubation
Posted by Doug Cutting <cu...@apache.org>.
+1 Sounds like a great project!
Doug
On 11/19/2010 01:48 AM, Jörn Kottmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> lets vote on the acceptance of the OpenNLP Project for incubation
> at the Apache Incubator.
>
> The proposal is on the wiki
> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenNLPProposal
> and a copy is included below.
>
> The discussion thread can be found here:
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201011.mbox/%3C4CE4F1F4.3010909@gmail.com%3E
>
>
> Please cast your votes:
>
> [ ] +1 Accept OpenNLP for incubation
> [ ] +0 Don't care
> [ ] -1 Reject for the following reason:
>
> The vote is open for at least 72 hours.
>
> Thanks!
> Jörn
>
> = OpenNLP Proposal =
> The following is a proposal for a new top-level project within the ASF.
>
> == Abstract ==
> OpenNLP is a Java machine learning toolkit for natural language
> processing (NLP).
>
> == Proposal ==
> OpenNLP 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. These
> tasks are usually required to build more advanced text processing services.
>
> The goal of the OpenNLP project will be to create a mature toolkit for
> the abovementioned tasks. An additional goal is to provide a large
> number of pre-built models for a variety of languages, as well as the
> annotated text resources that those models are derived from.
>
> == Background ==
> OpenNLP was started in 2000 by Jason Baldridge and Gann Bierner while
> they were graduate students in the Division of Informatics at the
> University of Edinburgh. OpenNLP, broadly speaking, was meant to be a
> high-level organizational unit for various open source software packages
> for natural language processing; more practically, it provided a
> high-level package name for various Java packages of the form opennlp.*.
> The first OpenNLP software package was the Grok natural language parsing
> toolkit, which was also the genesis of what is now called the OpenNLP
> Toolkit. The software released on the OpenNLP sourceforge site (started
> in 2000, along with Grok) was simply a set of interfaces defined in the
> package opennlp.common and referred to as the OpenNLP Java API. The
> actual implementations of natural language processing components were
> provided in Grok, along with code for sentence parsing with Combinatory
> Categorial Grammar. This code was used heavily in both Baldridge's and
> Biern
> er's dissertations. The first paper that used Grok, and especially the
> components that would become the OpenNLP Toolkit is
> [[http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/jbaldrid/papers/hockenmaier_etal_ESSLLI2000.pdf|Hockenmaier,
> Bierner and Baldridge (2000)]] (later updated as the journal article
> [[http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/jbaldrid/papers/HockenmaierEtal2004.pdf|Hockenmaier,
> Bierner, and Baldridge (2004)]]).
>
> In 2003, it was decided to remove the NLP infrastructure from Grok as
> there was a clear separation between the basic text processing
> components and the syntactic and semantic analysis components. At the
> same time, Grok was rebranded as OpenCCG (openccg.sf.net). The final
> release of the OpenNLP Java API was made in March 2003; the new OpenNLP
> Toolkit was created from the API and the Grok text processing
> components, with version 1.0 being released in April 2004. The OpenNLP
> Toolkit and OpenCCG have evolved independently since then and have
> mostly independent and active developer and user communities. OpenCCG is
> primarily used in the academic community, while OpenNLP has considerable
> use in both academia and industry. As in indication of the academic
> impact of OpenNLP, a search on Google scholar (done in March 2010)
> returned about 650 publications citing the package. Some of these
> include the OpenNLP website and a few non-publications plus some
> self-citations. Based on a scan of
> these results, we estimate that about 500 actual publications have used
> OpenNLP in their work, and there are an addition 50 or so
> quasi-publications like surveys and instruction manuals.
>
> The activity level of the OpenNLP project has fluctuated over that past
> 10+ years, with a large uptick in the last two years especially. Most
> recently, due both to the availability of new documentation and the
> release of version 1.5 , there have been many more downloads and page
> views for the OpenNLP project. In fact, September 2010 had the most
> downloads (1,561) and project web hits (226,391) of any month since the
> project's beginning in 2000, and October is keeping pacing with that
> figure so far. As a result, OpenNLP has gone from being in the 2000th to
> 4000th ranked project (between January and May, 2010) to being ranked
> 570, 314, 181 and 439 for July, August, September, and October
> respectively. Full details are available on the Sourceforge statistics
> page for OpenNLP. (There are 240,000 projects hosted on SourceForge,
> though this figure includes many, many projects that never actually get
> started: it seems that about 7-10% of these are stable, active projects
> base
> d on a review done in 2007.)
>
> == Rationale ==
> OpenNLP fills a significant gap at the ASF in regards to human language
> processing tools. While Lucene/Solr, UIMA and Mahout all have some tools
> in this area, none of them are solely focused on tools specifically for
> working with natural language like OpenNLP.
>
> == Initial Goals ==
> The initial goals of the proposed project are:
>
> * Bring the community together at the ASF and make the development
> process transparent for them
> * Write user documentation about all major components
> * Automated build including train and evaluate regression tests
> * Produce an Incubating release
>
> == Current Status ==
> === Meritocracy ===
> Some of the initial committers are familiar with Apache's idea of
> meritocracy, others aren't. We will get everybody on the same level as
> part of the incubation process.
>
> === Community ===
> OpenNLP already has a considerable user base, both in industry and
> academia.
>
> === Core Developers ===
> See the initial committer list.
>
> === Alignment ===
> OpenNLP has tie-ins with several existing Apache projects. We have been
> distributing wrappers for UIMA for some time now (two UIMA committers
> also contribute to OpenNLP). We expect this collaboration to strengthen
> further after our move to Apache.
>
> Another obvious connection exists to some of the projects under the
> Lucene umbrella. On the one hand, projects like Solr may benefit from
> the OpenNLP analysis capabilities to create specialized search for
> particular domains. On the other, OpenNLP may benefit from the machine
> learning code that is being developed in Mahout, and maybe get some
> people from that community to lend a hand.
>
> == Known Risks ==
> === Orphaned products ===
> The project has been around for quite a number of years already, it has
> a well-established user community and a diverse set of committers.
>
> === Inexperience with Open Source ===
> OpenNLP has been an open source project for quite some time. Many of the
> developers are already familiar with both open source in general and the
> ASF in particular.
>
> === Homogenous Developers ===
> The current group of developers is very diverse, no two developers work
> for the same organization.
>
> === Reliance on Salaried Developers ===
> Most of the developers are not paid to work on OpenNLP, so there is
> little reliance on salaried developers.
>
> === Relationships with Other Apache Products ===
> NLP is often used in search and other algorithms that work with
> unstructured data, thus OpenNLP is likely to be useful to the Lucene and
> Solr communities. It also aligns nicely with both Mahout and UIMA.
>
> === A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand ===
> We think the project aligns nicely with the goals of the ASF to
> disseminate source code to the public free of charge. NLP has long been
> the subject of cutting edge research, but is often lacking in community
> and shared knowledge. We believe that by bringing OpenNLP to the ASF,
> the Apache brand will help deliver NLP capabilities to a much larger
> audience and likewise a cutting edge project like OpenNLP can further
> the ASF brand by providing users with tried and true, as well as new,
> natural language processing capabilities.
>
> == Documentation ==
> *http://opennlp.sourceforge.net/README.html
> *http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/opennlp/index.php?title=Main_Page
>
> == Initial Source ==
> The source code is maintained in two CVS repositories on SourceForge.
>
> OpenNLP Maxent:http://maxent.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/maxent/
>
> OpenNLP Tools and OpenNLP
> UIMA:http://opennlp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/opennlp/
>
> == Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan ==
> The OpenNLP source code is already open source under the AL 2.0.
>
> == External Dependencies ==
> ||'''Library''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''License'''
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Description''' ||
> ||JWNL ||||<style="text-align: center;">BSD ||||<style="text-align:
> center;">Java Wordnet Library ||
> ||JUnit ||||<style="text-align: center;">CPL ||||<style="text-align:
> center;">Unit Testing Framework ||
> ||UIMA ||||<style="text-align: center;">AL 2.0 ||||<style="text-align:
> center;">Unstructured Information Management Architecture ||
>
>
> == Cryptography ==
> OpenNLP neither provides nor uses any cryptography.
>
> == Required Resources ==
> === Mailing lists ===
> * opennlp-dev
> * opennlp-private
> * opennlp-user
> * opennlp-commits
>
> === Subversion Directory ===
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/opennlp
>
> === Issue Tracking ===
> Jira: OPENNLP
>
> === Other Resources ===
> == Initial Committers ==
> ||'''Name''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Email'''
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''CLA''' ||
> ||Thilo Goetz ||||<style="text-align: center;"> twgoetz@apache.org
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Grant Ingersoll ||||<style="text-align: center;"> gsingers@apache.org
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Jörn Kottmann ||||<style="text-align: center;"> joern@apache.org
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Thomas Morton ||||<style="text-align: center;"> tsmorton@gmail.com
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">no ||
> ||William Silva ||||<style="text-align: center;">
> william.colen@gmail.com ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Jason Baldridge ||||<style="text-align: center;">
> jasonbaldridge@gmail.com ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||James Kosin ||||<style="text-align: center;"> james.kosin@gmail.com
> ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
>
>
> == Affiliations ==
> ||'''Name''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Affiliation''' ||
> ||Thilo Goetz ||||<style="text-align: center;">IBM ||
> ||Grant Ingersoll ||||<style="text-align: center;">Lucid Imagination ||
> ||Jörn Kottmann ||||<style="text-align: center;">Infopaq International
> A/S ||
> ||Thomas Morton ||||<style="text-align: center;">Comcast Corporation ||
> ||William Silva ||||<style="text-align: center;">São Paulo University ||
> ||Jason Baldridge ||||<style="text-align: center;">The University of
> Texas at Austin ||
> ||James Kosin ||||<style="text-align: center;">International
> Communications Group, Inc. ||
>
>
> == Sponsors ==
> === Champion ===
> Grant Ingersoll
>
> === Nominated Mentors ===
> Isabel Drost
>
> Grant Ingersoll
>
> Benson Margulies
>
>
>
> === Sponsoring Entity ===
> The Apache Incubator
>
>
>
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Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenNLP for incubation
Posted by Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com>.
Hi,
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Jörn Kottmann <ko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> lets vote on the acceptance of the OpenNLP Project for incubation
> at the Apache Incubator.
[x] +1 Accept OpenNLP for incubation
BR,
Jukka Zitting
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Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenNLP for incubation
Posted by Mohammad Nour El-Din <no...@gmail.com>.
+1 (non-binding)
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Marcel Offermans
<ma...@luminis.nl> wrote:
> On 19 Nov 2010, at 10:48 , Jörn Kottmann wrote:
>
>> lets vote on the acceptance of the OpenNLP Project for incubation
>> at the Apache Incubator.
>
> +1
>
> Greetings, Marcel
>
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Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenNLP for incubation
Posted by Marcel Offermans <ma...@luminis.nl>.
On 19 Nov 2010, at 10:48 , Jörn Kottmann wrote:
> lets vote on the acceptance of the OpenNLP Project for incubation
> at the Apache Incubator.
+1
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Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenNLP for incubation
Posted by Nick Kew <ni...@apache.org>.
On 19 Nov 2010, at 09:48, Jörn Kottmann wrote:
> Please cast your votes:
>
> [ ] +1 Accept OpenNLP for incubation
> [ ] +0 Don't care
> [ ] -1 Reject for the following reason:
+1
OpenNLP is a bit after my time, but I was familiar with the Edinburgh
speech&language folks when I was doing related research work at
Sheffield. They were doing good work, and I hope to find time to
renew my acquaintance with it at apache!
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Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenNLP for incubation
Posted by Matt Benson <gu...@gmail.com>.
On Nov 19, 2010, at 3:48 AM, Jörn Kottmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> lets vote on the acceptance of the OpenNLP Project for incubation
> at the Apache Incubator.
>
> The proposal is on the wiki
> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenNLPProposal
> and a copy is included below.
>
> The discussion thread can be found here:
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201011.mbox/%3C4CE4F1F4.3010909@gmail.com%3E
>
> Please cast your votes:
>
> [X] +1 Accept OpenNLP for incubation
> [ ] +0 Don't care
> [ ] -1 Reject for the following reason:
>
-Matt
> The vote is open for at least 72 hours.
>
> Thanks!
> Jörn
>
> = OpenNLP Proposal =
> The following is a proposal for a new top-level project within the ASF.
>
> == Abstract ==
> OpenNLP is a Java machine learning toolkit for natural language processing (NLP).
>
> == Proposal ==
> OpenNLP 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. These tasks are usually required to build more advanced text processing services.
>
> The goal of the OpenNLP project will be to create a mature toolkit for the abovementioned tasks. An additional goal is to provide a large number of pre-built models for a variety of languages, as well as the annotated text resources that those models are derived from.
>
> == Background ==
> OpenNLP was started in 2000 by Jason Baldridge and Gann Bierner while they were graduate students in the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. OpenNLP, broadly speaking, was meant to be a high-level organizational unit for various open source software packages for natural language processing; more practically, it provided a high-level package name for various Java packages of the form opennlp.*. The first OpenNLP software package was the Grok natural language parsing toolkit, which was also the genesis of what is now called the OpenNLP Toolkit. The software released on the OpenNLP sourceforge site (started in 2000, along with Grok) was simply a set of interfaces defined in the package opennlp.common and referred to as the OpenNLP Java API. The actual implementations of natural language processing components were provided in Grok, along with code for sentence parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammar. This code was used heavily in both Baldridge's and Biern
> er's dissertations. The first paper that used Grok, and especially the components that would become the OpenNLP Toolkit is [[http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/jbaldrid/papers/hockenmaier_etal_ESSLLI2000.pdf|Hockenmaier, Bierner and Baldridge (2000)]] (later updated as the journal article [[http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/jbaldrid/papers/HockenmaierEtal2004.pdf|Hockenmaier, Bierner, and Baldridge (2004)]]).
>
> In 2003, it was decided to remove the NLP infrastructure from Grok as there was a clear separation between the basic text processing components and the syntactic and semantic analysis components. At the same time, Grok was rebranded as OpenCCG (openccg.sf.net). The final release of the OpenNLP Java API was made in March 2003; the new OpenNLP Toolkit was created from the API and the Grok text processing components, with version 1.0 being released in April 2004. The OpenNLP Toolkit and OpenCCG have evolved independently since then and have mostly independent and active developer and user communities. OpenCCG is primarily used in the academic community, while OpenNLP has considerable use in both academia and industry. As in indication of the academic impact of OpenNLP, a search on Google scholar (done in March 2010) returned about 650 publications citing the package. Some of these include the OpenNLP website and a few non-publications plus some self-citations. Based on a scan of
> these results, we estimate that about 500 actual publications have used OpenNLP in their work, and there are an addition 50 or so quasi-publications like surveys and instruction manuals.
>
> The activity level of the OpenNLP project has fluctuated over that past 10+ years, with a large uptick in the last two years especially. Most recently, due both to the availability of new documentation and the release of version 1.5 , there have been many more downloads and page views for the OpenNLP project. In fact, September 2010 had the most downloads (1,561) and project web hits (226,391) of any month since the project's beginning in 2000, and October is keeping pacing with that figure so far. As a result, OpenNLP has gone from being in the 2000th to 4000th ranked project (between January and May, 2010) to being ranked 570, 314, 181 and 439 for July, August, September, and October respectively. Full details are available on the Sourceforge statistics page for OpenNLP. (There are 240,000 projects hosted on SourceForge, though this figure includes many, many projects that never actually get started: it seems that about 7-10% of these are stable, active projects base
> d on a review done in 2007.)
>
> == Rationale ==
> OpenNLP fills a significant gap at the ASF in regards to human language processing tools. While Lucene/Solr, UIMA and Mahout all have some tools in this area, none of them are solely focused on tools specifically for working with natural language like OpenNLP.
>
> == Initial Goals ==
> The initial goals of the proposed project are:
>
> * Bring the community together at the ASF and make the development process transparent for them
> * Write user documentation about all major components
> * Automated build including train and evaluate regression tests
> * Produce an Incubating release
>
> == Current Status ==
> === Meritocracy ===
> Some of the initial committers are familiar with Apache's idea of meritocracy, others aren't. We will get everybody on the same level as part of the incubation process.
>
> === Community ===
> OpenNLP already has a considerable user base, both in industry and academia.
>
> === Core Developers ===
> See the initial committer list.
>
> === Alignment ===
> OpenNLP has tie-ins with several existing Apache projects. We have been distributing wrappers for UIMA for some time now (two UIMA committers also contribute to OpenNLP). We expect this collaboration to strengthen further after our move to Apache.
>
> Another obvious connection exists to some of the projects under the Lucene umbrella. On the one hand, projects like Solr may benefit from the OpenNLP analysis capabilities to create specialized search for particular domains. On the other, OpenNLP may benefit from the machine learning code that is being developed in Mahout, and maybe get some people from that community to lend a hand.
>
> == Known Risks ==
> === Orphaned products ===
> The project has been around for quite a number of years already, it has a well-established user community and a diverse set of committers.
>
> === Inexperience with Open Source ===
> OpenNLP has been an open source project for quite some time. Many of the developers are already familiar with both open source in general and the ASF in particular.
>
> === Homogenous Developers ===
> The current group of developers is very diverse, no two developers work for the same organization.
>
> === Reliance on Salaried Developers ===
> Most of the developers are not paid to work on OpenNLP, so there is little reliance on salaried developers.
>
> === Relationships with Other Apache Products ===
> NLP is often used in search and other algorithms that work with unstructured data, thus OpenNLP is likely to be useful to the Lucene and Solr communities. It also aligns nicely with both Mahout and UIMA.
>
> === A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand ===
> We think the project aligns nicely with the goals of the ASF to disseminate source code to the public free of charge. NLP has long been the subject of cutting edge research, but is often lacking in community and shared knowledge. We believe that by bringing OpenNLP to the ASF, the Apache brand will help deliver NLP capabilities to a much larger audience and likewise a cutting edge project like OpenNLP can further the ASF brand by providing users with tried and true, as well as new, natural language processing capabilities.
>
> == Documentation ==
> *http://opennlp.sourceforge.net/README.html
> *http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/opennlp/index.php?title=Main_Page
>
> == Initial Source ==
> The source code is maintained in two CVS repositories on SourceForge.
>
> OpenNLP Maxent:http://maxent.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/maxent/
>
> OpenNLP Tools and OpenNLP UIMA:http://opennlp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/opennlp/
>
> == Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan ==
> The OpenNLP source code is already open source under the AL 2.0.
>
> == External Dependencies ==
> ||'''Library''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''License''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Description''' ||
> ||JWNL ||||<style="text-align: center;">BSD ||||<style="text-align: center;">Java Wordnet Library ||
> ||JUnit ||||<style="text-align: center;">CPL ||||<style="text-align: center;">Unit Testing Framework ||
> ||UIMA ||||<style="text-align: center;">AL 2.0 ||||<style="text-align: center;">Unstructured Information Management Architecture ||
>
>
> == Cryptography ==
> OpenNLP neither provides nor uses any cryptography.
>
> == Required Resources ==
> === Mailing lists ===
> * opennlp-dev
> * opennlp-private
> * opennlp-user
> * opennlp-commits
>
> === Subversion Directory ===
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/opennlp
>
> === Issue Tracking ===
> Jira: OPENNLP
>
> === Other Resources ===
> == Initial Committers ==
> ||'''Name''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Email''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''CLA''' ||
> ||Thilo Goetz ||||<style="text-align: center;"> twgoetz@apache.org ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Grant Ingersoll ||||<style="text-align: center;"> gsingers@apache.org ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Jörn Kottmann ||||<style="text-align: center;"> joern@apache.org ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Thomas Morton ||||<style="text-align: center;"> tsmorton@gmail.com ||||<style="text-align: center;">no ||
> ||William Silva ||||<style="text-align: center;"> william.colen@gmail.com ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||Jason Baldridge ||||<style="text-align: center;"> jasonbaldridge@gmail.com ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
> ||James Kosin ||||<style="text-align: center;"> james.kosin@gmail.com ||||<style="text-align: center;">yes ||
>
>
> == Affiliations ==
> ||'''Name''' ||||<style="text-align: center;">'''Affiliation''' ||
> ||Thilo Goetz ||||<style="text-align: center;">IBM ||
> ||Grant Ingersoll ||||<style="text-align: center;">Lucid Imagination ||
> ||Jörn Kottmann ||||<style="text-align: center;">Infopaq International A/S ||
> ||Thomas Morton ||||<style="text-align: center;">Comcast Corporation ||
> ||William Silva ||||<style="text-align: center;">São Paulo University ||
> ||Jason Baldridge ||||<style="text-align: center;">The University of Texas at Austin ||
> ||James Kosin ||||<style="text-align: center;">International Communications Group, Inc. ||
>
>
> == Sponsors ==
> === Champion ===
> Grant Ingersoll
>
> === Nominated Mentors ===
> Isabel Drost
>
> Grant Ingersoll
>
> Benson Margulies
>
>
>
> === Sponsoring Entity ===
> The Apache Incubator
>
>
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