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From: "Mattmann, Chris A (388J)" <chris.a.mattmann@jpl.nasa.gov>
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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 17:57:27 +0000
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+1 to making OpenNLP better and eating the ASF dogfood, great response J=F6=
rn.

Cheers,
Chris

On Aug 1, 2012, at 5:00 AM, J=F6rn Kottmann wrote:

> On 08/01/2012 01:01 PM, Miller, Timothy wrote:
>> There was some chatter last week about resources potentially being downl=
oaded via maven for license compatibility reasons.  Just wondering if that =
brings about the possibility of using external libraries that are not apach=
e-licensed that would also be auto-downloaded under certain maven build com=
mands.  Specifically I was thinking of the GPL-licensed berkeley parser whi=
ch I've used to get significantly higher accuracy than the opennlp parser w=
e currently wrap in our constituency parser module.
>=20
> Making scripts or maven build commands which download stuff is fine, but =
it might
> turn out to be quit limiting for your users which need the freedom of the=
 AL. That will be
> a problem if Berkeley is the only option.
>=20
> The HBase people for example have an optional dependency on LZO which is =
GPL,
> and people there just need to install and download it themselves.
> See here:
> http://hbase.apache.org/book/lzo.compression.html
>=20
> Speaking as an OpenNLP committer now, it would of course be nice to make =
our parser better.
> If you want to work on that we will be happy to get some patches.
>=20
> J=F6rn


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Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
Senior Computer Scientist
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
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Email: chris.a.mattmann@nasa.gov
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
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