The Apache OpenNLP team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.8.4 of Apache OpenNLP. The Apache OpenNLP library is a machine learning based toolkit for the processing of natural language text. It supports the most common NLP tasks, such as tokenization, sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, named entity extraction, chunking, and parsing.
The OpenNLP 1.8.4 binary and source distributions are available for download from our download page: http://opennlp.apache.org/cgi- bin/download.cgi The OpenNLP library is distributed by Maven Central as well. See the Maven Dependency page for more details: http://opennlp.apache.org/ maven-dependency.html This release introduces new features, improvements and bug fixes. Java 1.8 and Maven 3.3.9 are required. Additionally the release contains the following changes: - Remove Tokenizer param from Doccat trainer CLI - Add annotator notes to BratAnnotator - Add 20Newsgroups format support to the doccat component - Removed WordVector toArray methods - Removed deprecated leipzig doccat format support - Add filename to overlapping annotation exception in NameSample - Resolved concurrency issue in POS tagger - Brat Annotation Service does not serialize results appropriately A detailed list of the issues related to this release can be found in the release notes. For a complete list of fixed bugs and improvements please see the README.html file included in the distribution.
