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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:54:20 +0100
Subject: DKPro Core 1.1.0 released
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We are pleased to announce the release of DKPro Core 1.1.0 - a =
collection of software components for natural language processing (NLP) =
based on the Apache UIMA framework.=20

  http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/dkpro/

DKPro Core consists of a number of pre-processing components for NLP =
tasks, often wrapping existing libraries or tools for easy use in an =
UIMA pipeline.

  * tokenization/segmentation
  * compound splitting (Banana Split, JWordSplitter)
  * stemming (Snowball)
  * part-of-speech tagging (TreeTagger)
  * parsing (Stanford Parser)
  * language identification (TextCat)
  * spelling correction (Jazzy)
  * IO support for various data types (text, XML, PDF, WSDL, Wikipedia, =
...)=20

A basic UIMA type system is provided with which all of the components =
work out-of-the-box. Some components can be configured for use with =
other type systems.

DKPro Core builds heavily on uimaFIT, making use of features such as =
injection of configuration parameters and automatic type detection. =
Because using DKPro in Java code with uimaFIT is so easy, we do at =
present not provide traditional UIMA XML descriptors for our analysis =
engines, readers and consumers - only for the type systems.

We offer two sets of components with DKPro Core:

  * DKPro Core ASL provides components under the Apache Software License =
2.0
    http://code.google.com/p/dkpro-core-asl

  * DKPro Core GPL provides components under the GNU Public License 3.0
    http://code.google.com/p/dkpro-core-gpl

Currently DKPro Core is meant to be used with Apache Maven. We host a =
public Maven repository containing DKPro Core ASL, DKPro Core GPL and =
all their dependendies. You can also obtain JARs for individual =
components from that repository. With future releases of DKPro, we may =
add the option of a downloadable archive.

This project was initiated by the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab =
(UKP) at the Technische Universit=E4t Darmstadt, Germany under the =
auspices of Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych. All former and current member of =
the UKP Lab have contributed in code, as testers or in spirit to this =
project. It constitutes an essential cornerstone for our research =
environment at the UKP Lab.

DKPro Core requires Java 1.6, UIMA 2.3.1 and uimaFIT 1.1.0 (amongst =
other component-specific dependencies).

An introduction to DKPro Core can be found at
  http://code.google.com/p/dkpro-core-asl/wiki/MyFirstDKProProject

Please feel free to direct your questions to =
dkpro-core-user@googlegroups.com .
If you wish to be notified about new releases, please subscribe to =
http://groups.google.com/group/dkpro-core-announce .

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Richard Eckart de Castilho
Technical Lead
Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab=20
FB 20 Computer Science Department     =20
Technische Universit=E4t Darmstadt=20
Hochschulstr. 10, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany=20
phone +49 (6151) 16-7477, fax -5455, room S2/02/E225
eckartde@tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de=20
www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de=20
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