Incompatible with opennlp1.5

[Sandeep]

Trying to compile relex with Opennlp tool version 1.5.0 throws following errors

    [javac] /Users/smane/Documents/Software/relex-1.3.0/src/java/relex/corpus/DocSplitterOpenNLPImpl.java:109: cannot find symbol
    [javac] symbol : class SentenceDetector
    [javac] location: package opennlp.tools.lang.english
    [javac] detector = new opennlp.tools.lang.english.SentenceDetector(englishModelFilename);
    [javac] ^
    [javac] /Users/smane/Documents/Software/relex-1.3.0/src/java/relex/corpus/DocSplitterOpenNLPImpl.java:186: incompatible types
    [javac] found : opennlp.tools.util.Span[]
    [javac] required: int[]
    [javac] int[] sentenceEnds = detector.sentPosDetect(buffer);
    [javac] ^
    [javac] /Users/smane/Documents/Software/relex-1.3.0/src/java/relex/corpus/DocSplitterOpenNLPImpl.java:246: incompatible types
    [javac] found : opennlp.tools.util.Span[]
    [javac] required: int[]
    [javac] int[] sentenceEnds = detector.sentPosDetect(docText);
    [javac] ^
    [javac] Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API.
    [javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
    [javac] 3 errors

Workaround: Use opennlp version 1.3.0

[Stephen Gear (oobetatestoo)]

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[linas (linasvepstas)]

Yes, I tried this too, and failed. <rant>Not happy that they changed the API :-( I lost this evening trying to figure out how to use their new API, but its wildly under-documented, so I was mostly trying to guess what the right thing to do was, and failed.</rant>

Anyway, relex will work just fine without opennlp; it will fall back to the default Java sentence detector, and honestly, I am not sure its any worse ... and in some cases, it's better. I have not seen any accuracy metric to justify using the one over the other.

[linas (linasvepstas)]

I've finally gotten around to implementing opennlp-1.5 support; sources have been pushed to the bzr tree, and I will package up a new relex release "real soon now".

[linas (linasvepstas)]

Fix for this is in released version relex-1.3.1