The Apache OpenNLP team is pleased to announce the release of Apache OpenNLP 2.5.8. 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. Apache OpenNLP 2.5.8 binary and source distributions are available for download from our download page . The OpenNLP library is distributed by Maven Central as well. See the Maven dependency page for more details. What’s new in Apache OpenNLP 2.5.8 Summary: Bug Fixes: The SentenceDetector got three fixes in handling edge cases with abbreviation dictionaries (OPENNLP-1809, OPENNLP-1810, OPENNLP-1811) - NOTE: These fixes have been back-ported to OpenNLP 2.5.8. Improvements: The OpenNLP developer manual (HTML + PDF) got an uplift for the UIMA documentation part, being largely extended (OPENNLP-49) Some updates of dependencies For further details, check the full list of changes via the project’s issue tracker. –The Apache OpenNLP Team