Re: What should we do with the SF models?
I believe that models are important for users, since not every user has access to appropriate data files to train basic models. My suggestion is to use an alternative service to host these models, like github, torrent or other file share service... Github is a good option since they don't have any quota or bandwidth limitation. Gustvo K. 2014-10-28 15:19 GMT-02:00 Joern Kottmann kottm...@gmail.com: Hi all, OpenNLP always came with a couple of trained models which were ready to use for a few languages. The performance a user encounters with those models heavily depends on their input text. Especially the English name finder models which were trained on MUC 6/7 data perform very poorly these days if run on current news articles and even worse on data which is not in the news domain. Anyway, we often get judged on how well OpenNLP works just based on the performance of those models (or maybe people who compare their NLP systems against OpenNLP just love to have OpenNLP perform badly). I think we are now at a point with those models were it is questionable if having them is still an advantage for OpenNLP. The SourceForge page is often blocked due to traffic limitations. We definitely have to act somehow. The old models have definitely some historic value and are used for testing the release. What should we do? We could take them offline and advice our users to train their own models on one of the various corpora we support. We could also do both and place a prominent link to our corpora documentation on the download page and in a less visible place a link to he historic SF models. Jörn
Re: OpenNLP Port
Jörn, thanks for the reply, I added the NOTICE was the only thing that was not in compliance. the project is under AL2.0 too, and I really don't have any intention to use the lib in any proprietary software, at least for now :) *Tom*, Yes you are correct, however I'm not even looking at the code of other projects, are very outdated and are not maintained for years. I'm actually building from scratch and my goal is to be 100% compatible with the OpenNLP. I believe that in a few weeks I have everything working Thanks 2014-10-08 6:58 GMT-03:00 Tom Morton tsmor...@gmail.com: Didn't someone do a C# port already? Not sure if the project is active but there might be some learnings there. https://sharpnlp.codeplex.com/ On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 3:44 AM, Jörn Kottmann kottm...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, if you copy our source code you need to respect the AL 2.0. The license itself can be found here: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html And here is an overview of what you have to do to distribute it as part of an other project: http://www.inteist.com/2010/05/how-to-use-apache-2-0-in- commercial-products-explained-in-simple-terms/ The attribution should be copied from our NOTICE file. Jörn On 10/07/2014 06:02 AM, Gustavo Knuppe wrote: Hi, first I would like to thank this team that developed the library, I need to say it has lots of cool stuff :) I'm working on a independent port of the OpenNLP to C#, I wonder if I need to add anything else to the readme or license or if the information is enough. Project: https://github.com/knuppe/SharpNL Any comments and suggestions are welcomed Thanks Gustavo K.
