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Apache OpenNLP 2.0.0 released

The Apache OpenNLP team is pleased to announce the release of Apache OpenNLP 2.0.0.

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.

Apache OpenNLP 2.0.0 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: Maven Dependency

What’s new in Apache OpenNLP 2.0.0

  • Adds ability to download models from within Apache OpenNLP

  • Now builds using Java 11

  • Supports model inference using the ONNX Runtime

  • Adds MASC format support

  • Made NameSample overlap exception more helpful

  • Tokenizers can now output a new line token

  • Adding missing charset to DictionaryLemmatizer

  • Updated documentation to fix training API sample code

  • Fixed build issues with Java 17

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.

--The Apache OpenNLP Team

05 June 2022