We are pleased to announce the release of

DKPro Core, version 1.6.1 (ASL & GPL)

a collection of interoperable software components for natural language processing

(NLP) based on the Apache UIMA framework.

http://code.google.com/p/dkpro-core-asl

http://code.google.com/p/dkpro-core-gpl

Changed requirements:

- UIMAJ SDK 2.6.0

- uimaFIT 2.1.0

Major improvements:

- Many writers cannot write to ZIP files

- Better support for reading/writing binary CAS formats

Major bug fixes:

- treetagger – NPE when explicitly specifying a model

- stanfordnlp – StanfordPosTagger not applying PTB3 escaping

A more detailed overview of the changes in this release can be found here

https://code.google.com/p/dkpro-core-asl/issues/list?can=1&q=label:Milestone-1.6.1

When upgrading, please mind that you should not mix different versions of DKPro

Core components in your projects – they may not be compatible with each other.