Apache OpenNLP 1.7.0
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Requirements
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Java 1.8 is required to run OpenNLP
Maven 3.3.9 is required for building it

Building from the Source Distribution
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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-[version]-bin.tar-gz (or .zip)

What is new in Apache OpenNLP 1.7.0
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This release introduces many new features, improvements and bug fixes. The API
has been improved for a better consistency and 1.4 deprecated methods were
removed. Now Java 1.8 is required.

Additionally the release contains the following noteworthy changes:

- OpenNLP is up to 50% faster at analyzing content
- A lot of deprecated code has been removed
- Code base has been cleaned up
- There is a new brat annotation service
- Documentation was improved and extended
- A Naive Bayesian Classifier implementation was added
- Morofologik addon is now included
- Added a language model component
- Added a CLI to the lemmatizer component.
- Added a supervised statistical lemmatizer.
- The lemmatizer component API has been entirely rewritten. The changes in
  the previously existing Dictionary-based lemmatizer are not backward compatible.

A detailed list of the issues related to this release can be found in the release
notes.


