NEWS

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crfsuite 0.4.2 (2023-09-16)

• Drop C++11 specification in Makevars
• Remove CITATION file
• Minor cosmetic changes to remove some Pedantic compiler messages in rcpp_crfsuite.cpp and crfsuite.h
• Comment out rumavl_strerror in rumavl.h as the function is not used and in order to avoid 'warning: function declaration isn't a prototype [-Wstrict-prototypes]'
• Fix in mem_mgr of ramvl.c caused by update of valgrind 3.21.0 which is now flagging 'realloc with size 0' in packages
• Fix memory leak when extracting the hyperparameters from the model with Trainer::params in crfsuite.hpp

crfsuite 0.4.1 (2022-11-01)

• fixes for R CMD check warning 'a function declaration without a prototype is deprecated in all versions of C [-Wstrict-prototypes]'

crfsuite 0.4 (2021-11-12)

• Add option shape to txt_feature
• Added coefficients.crf to allow to easily extract the coefficients from the model instead of the traditional model dump to disk
• Allow to pass embedding matrix when training and predicting

crfsuite 0.3.4 (2020-10-10)

• Make example conditionally on availability of udpipe

crfsuite 0.3.3 (2020-09-01)

• Incorporate CRFsuite commit a2a1547727985e3aff6a35cffe073f57f0223e9d

crfsuite 0.3.2 (2020-05-18)

• Fix the example of merge.chunkrange

crfsuite 0.3.1 (2020-04-27)

• Change the flexdashboard application by adding links to download the annotations

crfsuite 0.3 (2019-05-31)

• Add functionalities to allow to evaluate a model and tune hyperparameters of a crfsuite model
• Expand txt_feature to allow it to get prefix/suffix of strings
• Shiny app now does not show htmlOutput but textOutput + outputs extra field called 'text_visible' usefull if you change textOutput("ui_txt") to htmlOutput("ui_txt") in the app
• ner_download_modeldata now returns an object of try-error if modeldata could not be downloaded from github. This in order to be more gracefull on CRAN machines in case of internet connectivity issues
• add URL in decscription file
• remove the GNU make as part of the SystemRequirements

crfsuite 0.2 (2018-10-21)

• Fix for as.crf when loaded from file and adding more arguments than just the file
• added txt_feature as a simple feature extraction to identify if a word is capitalised, an email, an url or a number
• src/cqdb/src/lookup3.c, fix address sanitizer issue

crfsuite 0.1.1 (2018-10-02)

• Change use of posix_memalign to memalign on Solaris

crfsuite 0.1 (2018-09-28)

• Uses CRFsuite (https://github.com/chokkan/crfsuite) version 0.12 commit dc5b6c7b726de90ca63cbf269e6476e18f1dd0d9
• Uses liblbfgs (https://github.com/chokkan/liblbfgs) commit dc5b6c7b726de90ca63cbf269e6476e18f1dd0d9
• Allows to build a CRF model, to predict and to easily add attributes
• Added flexdashboard app to easily get chunks with labels