Apache OpenNLP Models

NLP is a set of tools used to derive meaningful and useful information from natural language sources such as web pages and text documents. Apache OpenNLP is an open-source Java library which is used to process natural language text. You can build an efficient text processing service using this library.

Step 1 : Installation of Apache OpenNLP Distribution

• Download Apache OpenNLP distribution
• Extract the zip file
• Add path-to/apache-opennlp-1.9.3/bin in your Environment Variables

Step 2

• Open this repo in any of your favorite IDE, i am using IntelliJ IDEA :)
• Add opennlp-tools-1.9.3.jar and opennlp-uima-1.9.3.jar in your project

Step 3

Download the pre-trained models provided by Apache OpenNLP as follows

• Open OpenNLPModelsDownloader.java file in terminal and execute command with space separated all the models taken from Apache OpenNLP website. You can download as many models as you want.

java OpenNLPModelsDownloader.java da-sent.bin en-ner-person.bin  

Step 4

Run SentenceDetection or NamedEntityDetection to test these model.