The plan is still to get back to OpenNLP ML (as an evolution of OpenNLP Maxent), but I at least haven't found the time to do so yet. So, as Jorn says, you should focus on the opennlp-maxent code.
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Jörn Kottmann <kottm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/25/2012 12:43 PM, Piotr Iwaniuk wrote: > >> as a part of a course assignment we are working on OpenNLP project. We >> will inspect one of the project's components and apply various software >> tools to improve Java code (e.g. FindBugs, ESC/Java2). Some time ago >> opennlp-maxent component was branched to opennlp-ml. Currently these >> components share most of their content. I would like to know what are >> plans for both branches. Will opennlp-ml be a replacement for >> opennlp-maxent? Which of them is going to be actively developed? >> > > They are currently mostly the same, opennlp-maxent will be the > one which is included in the next couple of releases. > > We planned to do a bigger refactoring and refreshment of > our machine learning code, this effort will go into opennlp-ml > and replaces opennlp-maxent one day. > > If you submit a patch to improve the code quality of the machine > learning code it should be for opennlp-maxent. > > You are welcome to discuss with us the various improvements which > could be done. > > Jörn > -- Jason Baldridge Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics The University of Texas at Austin http://www.jasonbaldridge.com http://twitter.com/jasonbaldridge
