opennlp git commit: Add noteworthy changes for 1.7.0 to README [Forced Update!]

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Repository: opennlp
Updated Branches:
  refs/heads/889 63e969c23 -> 1b1af72cf (forced update)


Add noteworthy changes for 1.7.0 to README

See issue OPENNLP-889


Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/opennlp/repo
Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/opennlp/commit/1b1af72c
Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/opennlp/tree/1b1af72c
Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/opennlp/diff/1b1af72c

Branch: refs/heads/889
Commit: 1b1af72cf7fa383a972dcbf2f6cd1d49edacbbc6
Parents: dfbf614
Author: Rodrigo Agerri <ra...@apache.org>
Authored: Wed Nov 23 13:04:49 2016 +0100
Committer: Kottmann <jo...@apache.org>
Committed: Tue Dec 27 11:48:44 2016 +0100

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 opennlp-distr/README | 33 ++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/opennlp/blob/1b1af72c/opennlp-distr/README
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diff --git a/opennlp-distr/README b/opennlp-distr/README
index 0ecfaec..8bfeeb4 100644
--- a/opennlp-distr/README
+++ b/opennlp-distr/README
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 Apache OpenNLP ${pom.version}
 ===============================
 
+Requirements
+------------
+Java 1.8 is required to run OpenNLP
+Maven 3.3.9 is required for building it
 
 Building from the Source Distribution
 -------------------------------------
 
-At least Maven 3.0.0 is required for building.
-
 To build everything execute the following command in the root folder:
     mvn clean install
 
@@ -22,23 +24,20 @@ removed. Now Java 1.8 is required.
 
 Additionally the release contains the following noteworthy changes:
 
-- Added evalutation support to the parser and doccat components
-- Added support to Evalita 07/09, Brat and OntoNotes corpus formats
-- Now L-BFGS is stable
-- Added Snowball to the Stemmer package
-- NameFinder now supports a user defined factory
-- Added pluggable machine learning support
-- Added a lemmatizer module
-- Added Cluster, Document Begin and Clark feature generators to the Name Finder
-- Added Liblinear as a Machine Learning addon
-- Entity Linker now has a command line interface
-- Added sequence classification support
+- OpenNLP is up to 50% faster at analyzing content
+- A lot of deprecated code has been removed
+- Code base has been cleaned up
+- There is a new brat annotation service
+- Documentation was improved and extended
+- A Naive Bayesian Classifier implementation was added
+- Morofologik addon is now included
+- Added a language model component
+- Added a CLI to the lemmatizer component.
+- Added a supervised statistical lemmatizer.
+- The lemmatizer component API has been entirely rewritten. The changes in
+  the previously existing Dictionary-based lemmatizer are not backward compatible.
 
 A detailed list of the issues related to this release can be found in the release
 notes.
 
-Requirements
-------------
-Java 1.8 is required to run OpenNLP
-Maven 3.3.9 is required for building it