Apache OpenNLP ${pom.version}
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Building from the Source Distribution
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At least Maven 3.0.0 is required for building.

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 ${pom.version}
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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 1.7 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.

Requirements
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Java 1.7 is required to run OpenNLP
Maven 3.0.0 is required for building it