Apache OpenNLP 1.7.2
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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 1.7.2
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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:

- Name Finder evaluation can now show a confusion matrix
- The default evaluation output contains more details
- Added a Language Model CLI tool
- Add Moses format support
- More refactoring and cleanup, specially in Machine Learning package and Dictionary
- Removed deprecated trainers from UIMA integration
- Fixed potential localization issues and added maven plugin to prevent it (ForbiddenAPI)
- Fixed issues with the BRAT corpus reader
- Deprecated GIS class, will be removed in a future 1.8.x release

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


