Title: Apache OpenNLP 1.7.1 released

The Apache OpenNLP team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.7.1 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 1.7.1 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>

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-1.7.1-bin.tar-gz (or .zip)

What is new in Apache OpenNLP 1.7.1
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This release introduces many new features, improvements and bug fixes. 

Additionally the release contains the following noteworthy changes:

- Travis CI Integration
- Added support to LETSMT format
- All stdout can be disabled during training via verbose parameter
- Improved and extended evaluation tests
- Refactoring and cleanup of code base
- Code fully migrated to Java 8
- Added an improved GitHub README page

For a complete list of fixed bugs and improvements please see the RELEASE_NOTES file included in the distribution.


--The Apache OpenNLP Team