CoreNLP v4.2.0 Release Notes
Release Date: 2020-11-17 // 5 months ago-
Overview
🚀 This release features a collection of small bug fixes and updates. It is the first release built directly from the GitHub repo.
✨ Enhancements
- ⬆️ Upgrade libraries (EJML, JUnit, JFlex)
- ➕ Add character offsets to Tregex responses from server
- 👌 Improve cleaning of treebanks for English models
- Speed up loading of Wikidict annotator
- 🆕 New utility for tagging CoNLL-U files in place
- 💻 Command line tool for processing TokensRegex
🛠 Fixes
- Output single token NER entities in inline XML output format
- ➕ Add currency symbol part of speech training data
- 🛠 Fix issues with tree binarizing
Previous changes from v4.0.0
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Overview
🚀 The latest release of Stanford CoreNLP includes a major overhaul of tokenization and a large collection of new parsing and tagging models. There are also miscellaneous enhancements and fixes.
✨ Enhancements
- UD v2.0 tokenization standard for English, French, German, and Spanish
- 🆕 New mwt annotator for handling multiword tokens in French, German, and Spanish.
- 🆕 New models with more training data and better performance for tagging and parsing in English, French, German, and Spanish.
- French NER
- 🆕 New Chinese segmentation based off CTB9
- 👌 Improved handling of double codepoint characters
- Easier syntax for specifying language specific pipelines and NER pipeline properties
- 👌 Improved CoNLL-U processing
- 👌 Improved speed and memory performance for CRF training
- 👍 Tregex support in CoreSentence
- ⚡️ Updated library dependencies
🛠 Fixes
- NPE while simultaneously tokenizing on whitespace and sentence splitting on newlines
- NPE in EntityMentionsAnnotator during language check
- NPE in CorefMentionAnnotator while aligning coref mentions with titles and entity mentions
- 🔧 NPE in NERCombinerAnnotator in certain configurations of models on/off
- Incorrect handling of eolonly option in ArabicSegmenterAnnotator
- Apply named entity granularity change prior to coref mention detection
- 🏁 Incorrect handling of keeping newline tokens when using Chinese segmenter on Windows
- Incorrect handling of reading in German treebank files
- 📜 SR parser crashes when given bad training input