# Apache OpenNLP ${pom.version} Release Notes

## Contents

What is Apache OpenNLP?
Major Changes in this Release
How to Get Involved
How to Report Issues
List of JIRA Issues Fixed in this Release

## 1. What is 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. These tasks are usually required to build more advanced text processing services. OpenNLP also included maximum entropy and perceptron based machine learning.

The goal of the Apache OpenNLP project will be to create a mature toolkit for the above mentioned tasks. An additional goal is to provide a large number of pre-built models for a variety of languages, as well as the annotated text resources that those models are derived from.

## Major Changes in this Release

Please see the README for this information.

## How to Get Involved

The Apache OpenNLP project really needs and appreciates any contributions, including documentation help, source code and feedback. If you are interested in contributing, please visit http://opennlp.apache.org/

## How to Report Issues

The Apache OpenNLP project uses JIRA for issue tracking. Please report any issues you find at http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/opennlp

## List of JIRA Issues Fixed in this Release

Click issuesFixed/jira-report.html for the list of issues fixed in this release.