The Apache OpenNLP team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.8.2 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, parsing, and coreference resolution.
The OpenNLP 1.8.2 binary and source distributions are available for download from our download page.
The OpenNLP library is distributed by Maven Central as well. See the Maven Dependency page for more details.
Java 8 is required. Maven 3.3.9 is required for building the Source Distribution.
To build everything execute the following command in the root folder: mvn clean install
The results of the build will be placed in: opennlp-distr/target/apache-opennlp-1.8.2-bin.tar.gz (or .zip)
This release introduces some minor improvements and bug fixes. Java 1.8 is required.
The release contains the following noteworthy changes: - The Leipzig format support was improved to extract data for langdetect model training - Maxents loglikelihood threshold can be configured by the user - Added data verification for the eval data - Fixed handling of xml parsers used through out the package
A detailed list of the issues related to this release can be found in the release notes.
Thanks again to all contributors and committers for their help.
--The Apache OpenNLP Team
15 September 2017