diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index 12319ab..1d5fdb4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -226,11 +226,16 @@ JWKTL-1.1.0 (2016-04-29)
 - Modified: Codebase now requires Java 1.8
 - Modified: Upgraded to dkpro-parent-pom 12.
 
-JWKTL-1.1.1 (forthcoming)
+JWKTL-1.2.0 (forthcoming)
 - Fixed: Handling of whitespace in ENRelationNHandler.
 - Added: Made the headword line available for further parsing.
 - Modified: Improved category parsing.
 - Modified: Improved synonym/antonym parsing.
-- Modified: Replace cobertura with jacoco
-- Modified: Improved translation parsing
-- Added: Made raw pronunciation line available for further parsing
+- Modified: Replace cobertura with jacoco.
+- Modified: Improved translation parsing.
+- Added: Made raw pronunciation line available for further parsing.
+- Modified: switch to maven-javadoc-plugin 3.0.1 (#52).
+- Fixed: Javadoc issues (#53).
+- Fixed: Translation parsing (#60).
+- Added: Maven central badge to readme.
+- Added: Contributing guidelines and contributor list (#62).
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e7753a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# Contributing to JWKTL
+
+Thank you very much for your willingness to participate in this project.
+
+Please read the DKPro contribution guidelines at https://dkpro.github.io/contributing/
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.txt b/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b672efa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# This is the list of people who have contributed code to the DKPro JWKTL repository.
+#
+# This list is to be used in favor over author attributions in individual files,
+# e.g. via @author tags.
+#
+# Code integrated from third parties by others than their original authors may not have any
+# @author tags removed and respective names must not be added to this file. Integration of
+# third party code should be avoided.
+#
+# After the name, one or more mail addresses may be specified in pointy brackets and one or more
+# GitHub IDs may be specified in square brackets.
+#
+# See also https://github.com/dkpro/dkpro-core/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
+
+# Please keep the list sorted.
+
+Alexey Valikov [highsource]
+Christian M. Meyer [chmeyer]
+Christof Müller
+Ilya [intracer]
+Iryna Gurevych
+Jan Berkel [jberkel]
+Lizhen Qu
+Rafael Hoff [rafaelhoff]
+Torsten Zesch
+Tristan Miller [logological]
+Václav Slavík [vslavik]
+Yang Yang [geraint0923]
+Yevgen Chebotar
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c35ade8..3a6370c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 JWKTL
 -----
+
+[![Maven Central](https://maven-badges.herokuapp.com/maven-central/org.dkpro.jwktl/dkpro-jwktl/badge.svg)
 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/dkpro/dkpro-jwktl.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/dkpro/dkpro-jwktl)
 [![codecov.io](http://codecov.io/github/dkpro/dkpro-jwktl/coverage.svg?branch=master)](http://codecov.io/github/dkpro/dkpro-jwktl?branch=master)
 
@@ -17,7 +19,6 @@ API was first described in an LREC 2008 paper.
 
 Further information and documentation is available from the project homepage:
 * https://dkpro.github.io/dkpro-jwktl/
-* https://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwktl/
 
 
 License
@@ -28,6 +29,9 @@ JWKTL is available as open source software under the Apache License
 the license text for more details). JWKTL makes use of Berkeley DB Java
 Edition 5.0.73 (Sleepycat License), Apache Ant 1.7.1 (ASL), JUnit 4.12 (CPL), and Wikokit (New BSD license). 
 
+This product includes software from third parties. See the respective 
+license agreements in the `lib` subdirectory for details.
+
 
 Publications
 ------------
@@ -60,16 +64,11 @@ Project Background
 
 Prior to being available as open source software, JWKTL was a research 
 project at the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab of Technische 
-Universität Darmstadt, Germany. The following people are main contributors 
-to this project (in alphabetical order):
+Universität Darmstadt, Germany under the auspices of Prof. Iryna Gurevych.
+Since being open source software, JWKTL is developed by multiple contributors 
+(see CONTRIBUTORS.txt for details).
 
-* Jan Berkel
-* Yevgen Chebotar
-* Iryna Gurevych
-* Christian M. Meyer
-* Christof Müller
-* Lizhen Qu
-* Torsten Zesch 
+Contact
+-------
 
-This product includes software from third parties. See the respective 
-license agreements in the `lib` subdirectory for details.
+In case of any questions, please contact [Christian M. Meyer](https://www.chmeyer.de).