FACTORIE v1.2 Release Notes
Release Date: 2016-04-08 // about 9 years ago-
Overall
- Major rewrite of NLP pipeline
- 🛠 Many miscellaneous improvements and fixes
NLP
- 🐎 Many performance and speed improvments improvements to NER
- 📜 Rewritten, ~2x faster dependency parser
- Rewritten hierarchical cross-document coreference
- Rewritten universal schema relation extraction model and epistemological database
- Faster tokenization with JFlex (50x faster, ~500k tokens/second on modest machine)
- 👌 Improvements to model, lexicon, and other resource finding and loading
- 🆕 New name parser
Linear Algebra
- 📜 Several bug fixes to sparse tensors
Learning
- 👌 Support for simple constraints in optimization (projected gradient)
- 👌 Support for different constraints, regularization, and optimizers over different feature template subsets
- ➕ Added support for grid-searching subsets when optimizing hyperparameters
- 🐛 Bug fixes to Exponentiated Gradient
Inference
- LiteChainModel class for simple chain CRFs
Miscellaneous
- 👌 Improved unit- and integration-testing coverage
- 👌 Improved serialization
Previous changes from v1.1
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2014-11-15