Title: Apache OpenNLP 1.6.0 released

The Apache OpenNLP team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.6.0 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 1.6.0 binary and source distributions are available for download from our download page:
<http://opennlp.apache.org/cgi-bin/download.cgi>

The OpenNLP library is distributed by Maven Central as well. See the Maven Dependency page for more details:
<http://opennlp.apache.org/maven-dependency.html>

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 1.7 is required.

Additionally the release contains the following noteworthy changes:

- Added evalutation support to the parser and doccat components
- Added support to Evalita 07/09, Brat and OntoNotes corpus formats
- Now L-BFGS is stable
- Added Snowball to the Stemmer package
- NameFinder now supports a user defined factory
- Added pluggable machine learning support
- Added a lemmatizer module
- Added Cluster, Document Begin and Clark feature generators to the Name Finder
- Added Liblinear as a Machine Learning addon
- Entity Linker now has a command line interface
- Added sequence classification support

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 RELEASE_NOTES
file included in the distribution.

--The Apache OpenNLP Team