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compromise uses semver, and pushes to npm and github frequently

  • Major is a breaking api change - method or response changes that can cause runtime errors.
  • Minor is a behaviour change - Tagging or grammar changes.
  • Patch is an obvious, non-controversial bugfix.

While all Major releases should be reviewed, our only large releases are v6 in 2016 v12 in 2019 and v14 in 2022. Others have been mostly incremental.

14.14.2 [Oct 2024]

  • [fix] - runtime error in punctuation replace #1150

14.14.1 [Oct 2024]

  • [update] - compromise-dates 3.7.0
  • [fix] - runtime error in number parser #1145
  • [update] - dependencies

14.14.0 [July 2024]

  • [new] - .slashes() and .slashes().split() methods #1100
  • [fix] - multiple contraction issue #1128
  • [fix] - toNumbers() return values #1113
  • [fix] - (plugins/wikipedia) - fix hard-coded path for #1116
  • [fix] - (plugins/dates) - limit values in mm/dd format
  • [fix] - (plugins/dates) params mutation #1109
  • [change] - split people names by commas #1111
  • [change] - typescript export update #1104
  • [update] - eslint config format
  • [update] - github actions
  • [update] - dependencies

14.13.0 [Apr 2024]

  • [new] - .compute('freeze')
  • [new] - .debug('freeze')
  • [change] - allow 3-slashes in a word

14.12.0 [Feb 2024]

  • [new] - .payload() plugin
  • [new] - .numbers().isUnit() method #1089
  • [change] - update github workflow (thanks FDawgs!)
  • [fix] - README issues (thanks track0x1!)
  • [fix] - .has() inconsistency
  • [new] - support adding debug methods via plugins
  • [change] - remove deprecated .debug(object) support
  • [fix] - parentheses() match issue
  • [fix] - tokenization issue #1085
  • [new] - dates().isBefore(), dates().isBefore() methods
  • [new] - .debug('dates') method
  • [fix] - lazy join() issue
  • [update] - dependencies

14.11.2 [Jan 2024]

  • [new] - support for frozen lex in plugin object #1080
  • [fix] - toggling options in .json()
  • [new] - .join() and .joinIf() methods
  • [new] - support freeze in sweep
  • [change] - internal typescript improvements
  • [fix] - tagging issues
  • [change] - @hasEllipses must be following the word
  • [update] - dependencies

14.11.1 [Jan 2024]

  • [fix] - missing words in html output (thanks ryan!)
  • [change] - better #Possessive tagging for #1074
  • [change] - improved is/has contraction classifier #1074
  • [change] - fixes to subordinate clause identification #1072
  • [update] - dependencies

14.11.0 [Dec 2023]

  • [new] - tagging .freeze() and .unfreeze() feature
  • [change] - stronger deferal to internal lexicon
  • [change] - support any-length phrases in lexicon
  • [fix] - prevent missed overlapping lexicon phrases
  • [update] - dependencies

14.10.1 [Nov 2023]

  • [fix] - abbreviation checks for sentence-tokenizer #1061
  • [change] - improve person tagger #1059
  • [change] - add #FutureTense tag
  • [fix] - .out() runtime error #1056
  • [fix] - punctuation loss in .not() #1022
  • [update] - dependencies

14.10.0 [Aug 2023]

  • [fix] - verb conjugation fixes
  • [fix] - tagger fixes
  • [change] - align package.json with ESM module #1023
  • [fix] - .splitBefore() bugfix
  • [fix] - typescript+docs fixes #1023
  • [fix] - subtle changes to .text() and .isFull()
  • [update] - dependencies

14.9.0 [May 2023]

  • [new] - .verbs().toPastParticiple() method
  • [new] - .normalize({ debullet: true }) #1004
  • [change] - typescript path changes (thanks @rotemdan !)
  • [fix] - suffix tagging issues
  • [fix] - match syntax issue #997
  • [change] - keep possessive in replace #1011
  • [change] - major improvements to adj.toNoun() conjugator
  • [fix] - parsematch bug #997
  • [fix] - "there's been" contraction
  • [new] - .conjugate() methods on Noun/Adverb/Adjective classes
  • [new] - add Gerund and PastParticiple to .verbs().conjugate() results
  • [new] - option to keep possessives in .replace() #1011
  • [fix] - tagger fix #998
  • [update] - dependencies

14.8.2 [Feb 2023]

  • [change] - #Actor tagging - in advance of #565
  • [change] - .noun() lumping changes - in advance of #565
  • [new] - support japanese full-stop
  • [fix] - number tagging #992
  • [update] - dependencies

14.8.1 [Dec 2022]

  • [fix] - tagging fixes
  • [change] - allow #Plural acronyms
  • [fix] - allow root matches in fastOr
  • [fix] - more flexible PhrasalVerb tagging

14.8.0 [Dec 2022]

  • [fix] - tagging fixes
  • [new] - add Person .presumedMale(), .presumedFemale() methods
  • [new] - add Pronoun class, .refersTo()
  • [new] - add Noun.references()
  • [new] - .nouns('spencer') shorthand as an if-match
  • [change] - "[do] you .." etc now #QuestionWord
  • [new] - add #Hyphenated tag
  • [fix] - improved Auxiliary verb tagging
  • [update] - dependencies

14.7.1 [Nov 2022]

  • [fix] - concat fix
  • [change] - tagging fixes
  • [change] - {word/tag/sense} sense-match syntax

14.7.0 [Nov 2022]

  • [new] - match term id
  • [change] - tag text by default on .concat('')
  • [change] - allow modifying term prePunctuation
  • [new] - .wrap() method
  • [new] - .isFull() method
  • [new] - support full notIf matches on sweep
  • [fix] - text params for #953
  • [fix] - nouns().isSingular() missing
  • [change] - one-character w/ dash tokenization #977
  • [change] - allow setting model.one.prePunctuation + postPunctuation
  • [fix] - compromise-paragraphs plugin

14.6.0 [Oct 2022]

  • [change] - move internal conjugation methods
  • [update] - github scripts
  • [change] - fixes to .clauses() parser
  • [change] - an astrix is not a word
  • [new] - @hasColon method
  • [new] - @hasDash supports two dashes
  • [new] - #Passive verb tag
  • [new] - existential #There tag
  • [new] - add tense info to sentence json
  • [fix] - verb tokenization issues
  • [fix] - .replace() issues
  • [update] - dependencies

14.5.2 [Oct 2022]

  • [fix] - runtime error #965
  • [fix] - misc possessive tagging issues
  • [update] - dependencies

14.5.1 [Oct 2022]

  • [fix] - .remove() fixes
  • [change] - support « angle quotes »
  • [update] - dependencies

14.5.0 [August 2022]

  • [fix] - possible runtime error in setTag method
  • [change] - make #Honorific always a #Person #951
  • [new] - manually change conjugations/inflections from plugin #949
  • [new] - .adjectives().conjugate() method
  • [update] - dependencies

14.4.5 [August 2022]

  • [fix] - fix logic for greedy-negative matches - #936
  • [fix] - fix tagging for 3-digit year iso dates - #868
  • [update] - dependencies

14.4.4 [August 2022]

  • [fix] - support {root} matches without compromise/two

14.4.3 [August 2022]

  • [fix] - guard for toRoot methods in root match
  • [update] - compromise-stats

14.4.2 [July 2022]

  • [fix] - hotfix for sentence tokenization issue #935

14.4.1 [July 2022]

  • [change] - improvements to negative-optional match logic - !foo?
  • [change] - support short sentences embedded in quotes+parentheses
  • [change] - faster sentence tokenizer
  • [change] - ° symbol is not punctuation
  • [new] - implement .swap() for comparative/superlative adjectives
  • [fix] - sentence.toFuture() conjugation rules
  • [update] - dependencies

14.4.0 [July 2022]

  • [change] - support root matches like '{walk}' work without doing .compute('root')
  • [change] - split numbers+units '12km' as contraction - #919
  • [new] - .lazy(txt, match) fast-scan method 1
  • [fix] - support apostrophes in lexicon #932
  • [fix] - support unTag property in sweep
  • [change] - keep sentence caches, when still valid
  • [change] - alias nlp.compile() to .buildTrie()
  • [fix] - tagging fixes
  • [update] - dependencies plugin-releases: dates, speed, de-compromise

14.3.1 [June 2022]

  • [fix] - missed caches in .sweep()
  • [new] - .out('hash') and .json({hash:true})

14.3.0 [June 2022]

  • [fix] - unwanted logging in compromise/one
  • [fix] - dependency export path for react-native builds #928
  • [change] - split hyphenated words in match syntax 'foo-bar'
  • [change] - support 4-digit number-ranges (when not a phone number) plugin-releases: dates

14.2.1 [June 2022]

  • [fix] - double-contraction issue #925
  • [fix] - .not() memleak #926

14.2.0 [June 2022]

  • [fix] - speed improvements
  • [fix] - bug with fast-or possessive matches
  • [fix] - bug with slow-or end-matches
  • [change] - no-longer attempt 's contractions in compromise/one
  • [new] - flag novel tags in world.one.tagSet
  • [new] - .sweep() and nlp.buildNet() methods
  • [new] - some typescript support in plugins #918
  • [fix] - better unicode support with Unicode property escapes
  • [fix] - problems matching on cached documents
  • [fix] - typescript fixes
  • [fix] - suffix tagging issues
  • [fix] - uncached matches missing in .sweep()
  • [fix] - non-empty results when pointer is first repaired
  • [fix] - nouns().toPlural() fix for #921
  • [fix] - drop deprecated .subst() method internally
  • [new] - some support for .numbers().units() again #919

14.1.2 [April 2022]

  • [new] - add .harden() .soften() undocumented methods
  • [fix] - support pre-parsed matches in .has() .if() and .not()
  • [fix] - contraction OR match issue
  • [fix] - match-syntax min-max issue
  • [fix] - normalized printout of abbreviations
  • [update] - date plugin release
  • [update] - dependencies

14.1.1 [April 2022]

  • [fix] - main property in package.json #911

14.1.0 [April 2022]

  • [fix] - client-side export format for plugins
  • [new] - more adjective transformation methods
  • [new] - emoji + emoticon tagger
  • [new] - case-sensitive match option - {caseSensitive:true}

🚨 14.0.0 🚨   [March 2022]

Major release - see Release Notes for full details

  • [breaking] - remove .parent() and .parents() chain - (use .all() instead)
  • [breaking] - remove @titleCase alias (use @isTitleCase)
  • [breaking] - remove '.get()' alias - use '.eq()'
  • [breaking] - remove .json(0) shorthand - use .json()[0]
  • [breaking] - remove .tagger() - use .compute('tagger')
  • [breaking] - remove .export() -> .load() - use .json() -> nlp(json)
  • [breaking] - remove nlp.clone()
  • [breaking] - remove .join() deprecated
  • [breaking] - remove .lists() deprecated
  • [breaking] - remove .segment() deprecated
  • [breaking] - remove .sententences().toParticiple() & .verbs().toParticiple()
  • [breaking] - remove .nouns().toPossessive() & .nouns().hasPlural()
  • [breaking] - remove array support in match methods - (use .match().match() instead)
  • [breaking] - refactor .out('freq') output format - (uses .compute('freq').terms().unique().json() instead)
  • [breaking] - change .json() result format for subsets
  • [change] merge re-used capture-group names in one match
  • [change] drop support for undocumented empty '.split()' methods - which used to split the parent
  • [change] subtle changes to .text('fmt') formats
  • [change] @hasContraction is no-longer secretly-greedy. use @hasContraction{2}
  • [change] .and() now does a set 'union' operation of results (no overlaps)
  • [change] bestTag is now .compute('tagRank')
  • [change] .sort() is no longer in-place (its now immutable)
  • [change] drop undocumented options param to .replaceWith() method
  • [change] add match-group as 2nd param to split methods
  • [change] remove #FutureTense tag - which is not really a thing in english
  • [change] .unique() no-longer mutates parent
  • [change] .normalize() inputs cleanup
  • [change] drop agreement parameters in .numbers() methods
  • [change] - less-magical money parsing - nlp('50 cents').money().get() is no-longer 0.5
  • [change] - .find() does not return undefined on an empty result anymore
  • [change] - fuzzy matches must now be wrapped in tildes, like ~this~
  • [new] .union(), .intersection(), .difference() and .complement() methods
  • [new] .confidence() method - approximate tagging confidence score for arbitrary selections
  • [new] .settle() - remove overlaps in matches
  • [new] .isDoc() - helper-method for comparing two views
  • [new] .none() - helper-method for returning an empty view of the document
  • [new] .toView() method - drop back to a normal Class instance
  • [new] .grow() .growLeft() and .growRight() methods
  • [new] add punctuation match support via pre/post params
  • [new] add ambiguous empty .map() state as 2nd param

13.11.3 [June 2021]

  • [fix] - regex backtracing issue #847 (thanks @srubin)
  • misc tagging fixes update deps

13.11.2 [May 2021]

  • [fix] - verbphrase conjugation fixes
  • [fix] - verbphrase tagger fixes
  • [fix] - url tagging regex improvements (thanks Axay!) update deps plugin-releases: dates

13.11.1 [April 2021]

  • [fix] - obscure runtime error in capture-groups update deps plugin-releases: typeahead

13.11.0 [April 2021]

  • [change] - use babel default build target (drop ie11 polyfill)
  • [change] - dont compile esm build w/ babel anymore
  • [fix] - sentence conjugation fixes
  • [fix] - improvements to phrasal verbs
  • [change] - keep tokenization for some more dashed suffixes like 'snail-like' plugin-releases: dates, numbers, sentences

13.10.7 [April 2021]

  • [change] - tokenize '2 - 5' as NumerRange, like '2-5' is
  • [fix] - edge-cases for URLs with numbers
  • [fix] - some sentences.toPastTense() fixes
  • [fix] - 'n weekends from now' math in plugin-date plugin-releases: dates, sentences

13.10.6 [April 2021]

  • [fix] - support more time-ranges plugin-releases: dates@2.0.2

13.10.5 [March 2021]

  • [new] - support Time-range like '3pm-4pm'
  • [change] - cleanup some unicode regexes plugin-releases: dates

13.10.4 [March 2021]

  • [fix] - match syntax tokenization fix
  • [change] - improved performance monitoring

13.10.3 [March 2021]

  • [fix] - support complicated regular-expressions in match syntax
  • improved performance testing

13.10.2 [March 2021]

  • [fix] - support matching implicit terms in (or|blocks)
  • [change] - add #Timezone tag (from date-plugin)
  • [change] - add many more cities and regions

13.10.1 [March 2021]

  • [change] - #Date terms can still be a #Conjunction
  • [new] - #Imperative tag and .verbs().isImperative() method
  • [fix] - some tagger issues
  • update deps plugin-releases: dates

13.10.0 [Feb 2021]

  • [new] - #Fraction tag and improved fraction support (thanks Jakeii!)
  • [fix] - edge-case match issues with ! syntax
  • [change] - update deps
  • updates for compromise-dates@1.4.0, compromise-numbers@1.2.0

13.9.3 [Feb 2021]

  • [fix] - fix weird ordering issue with named exports #815

13.9.2 [Feb 2021]

  • [fix] - typescript issue

13.9.1 [Feb 2021]

  • [fix] - matches over a contraction
  • [new] - add 'implicit' text output

13.9.0 [Feb 2021]

  • [new] - World.addConjugations() method
  • [new] - World.addPlurals() method
  • [new] - start compromise-penn-tags plugin
  • [new] - add fuzzy option to match commands
  • [new] - support multiple-word matches in OR matches (a|b|foo bar|c)
  • [change] (internal) - rename 'oneOf' match syntax to 'fastOr'
  • [change] - use new export maps format
  • [fix] - conjugations fixes #800
  • [fix] - tokenization fixes #801

13.8.0 [Dec 2020]

  • [change] improved support for fractions in numbers-plugin #793
  • [change] remove zero-width characters in normalized output #759
  • [change] improved Person tagging with particles #794
  • [change] improved i18n Person names
  • [change] tagger+tokenization fixes
  • [change] remove empty results from .out('array') #795
  • [change] .tokenize() runs any postProcess() scripts from plugins
  • [change] improved support for lowercase acronyms
  • [change] - support years like '97
  • [change] - change tokenizer for '20-aug'
  • [change] - update deps of all plugins
  • [fix] - NumberRange tagging issue #795
  • [fix] - improved support for ordinal number ranges
  • [fix] - improved regex support in match-syntax
  • [fix] - improved support for soft match syntax #797
  • [fix] - better handling of {0,n} match syntax
  • [new] - new plugin strict-match
  • [new] - set NounPhrase, VerbPhrase tags in nlp-sentences plugin
  • [new] - .phrases() method in nlp-sentences plugin
  • [new] - support .apppend(doc) and .prepend(doc)
  • [new] - values.normalize() method

13.7.0 [Oct 2020]

  • [change] many misc tagging fixes
    • 'if' is now a #Preposition
    • possessive pronouns are #Pronoun and #Possessive
    • more phrasal verbs
    • make #Participle tag #PastTense
    • favor #PastTense over #Participle interpretation in tagger
  • [change] @hasHyphen returns false for sentence dashes
  • a lot more testing

13.6.0 [Oct 2020]

  • [new] first-attempt at verbs().subject() method
  • [change] avoid conjugating imperative tense - 'please close the door'
  • [change] misc tagging fixes #786
  • [change] .nouns() results split on quotations #783
  • [change] NumberRange must be < 4 digits #735
  • [change] reduction in #Person tag false-positives

13.5.0 [Sep 2020]

  • [new] add .parseMatch() method for pre-parsing match statements

13.4.0 [Sep 2020]

  • [change] stop including adverbs and some auxiliaries in .conjugate() results
  • [change] .append() and .prepend() on an empty doc now creates a new doc
  • [new] add verbs().toParticiple() method (add to observables/verb)
  • [new] add sentences().toParticiple() method (add to observables/verb)
  • [fix] some verb-tagging issues
  • [fix] contractions issue in .clone()
  • [fix] try harder to retain modal-verbs in conjugation - 'i should drive' no-longer becomes 'i will drive'

13.3.2 [Aug 2020]

  • fix for offset issue #771
  • fix for {min,max} syntax #767
  • typescript fixes
  • update deps

13.3.1 [June 2020]

-support unicode spaces for #759

  • major improvements to compromise-plugin-dates (1.0.0)

13.3.0 [June 2020]

  • bugfixes (conjugation and tagging) 752, 737, 725, 751, 743 748, 755, 758, 706, 761
  • support tokenized array as input
  • update deps
  • bugfix updates to plugin-sentences, and plugin-dates

13.2.0 [May 2020]

  • deprecate .money() and favour overloaded method in compromise-numbers plugin
  • add .percentages() and .fractions() to compromise-numbers plugin
  • add .hasAfter() and .hasBefore() methods
  • change handling of slashes
  • add .world() method to constructor
  • add more abbreviations
  • fix regex backtracking #739
  • tokenize build:
    • remove conjugation and inflection data
    • remove conjugation and inflection functions
  • remove sourcemap from build process (too big)
  • improvements to .numbers().units()
  • fix for linked-list runtime error #744 with contractions

13.1.1

  • fix verbs.json() runtime-error
  • improve empty .lists() methods
  • allow custom tag colors
  • test new github action workflow

13.1.0

  • significant (~30%) speed up of parsing
  • change sensitivity of input in .lookup() for major speed improvements.
  • improved typescript types
  • subtle changes to internal caching
  • adds 'oneOf' match syntax param
  • fixes [word?] syntax parsing

13.0.0 [Feb 2020]

major changes to .export() and [capture] group match-syntax.

  • [breaking] move .export() and .load() methods to plugin (compromise-export)
    • change .export() format - this hasn't worked properly since v12. (mis-parsed contractions) see #669
  • [breaking] split compromise-output into compromise-html and compromise-hash plugins
  • [breaking] .match('foo [bar]') no-longer returns 'bar'. (use .match('foo [bar]', 0))
  • [breaking] capture groups are no longer merged. .match('[foo] [bar]') returns two groups accessible with the new .groups() function
  • [breaking] change .sentences() method to return only full-sentences of matches (use .all() instead)

modifications:

  • [fix] - nlp.clone() - hasn't worked properly, since v12. (@Drache93)
  • [fix] - issues with greedy capture [*] and [.+] -(@Drache93) 💛
  • add whitespace properties (pre+post) to default json output (suppress with .json({ whitespace: false }))
  • .lookup({ key: val }) with an object now returns an object back ({val: Doc})
  • add nlp constructor as a third param to .extend()
  • support lexicon object param in tokenize - .tokenize('my word', { word: 'tag' })
  • clean-up of scripts and tooling
  • improved typescript types
  • add support for some french contractions like j'aime -> je aime
  • allow null results in .map() function
  • better typescript support
  • allow longer acronyms
  • [fix] - offset length issue
  • [new] - add new named-match syntax, with .groups() method (@Drache93)
  • [new] - add nlp.fromJSON() method
  • [new] - add a new compromise-tokenize.js build, without the tagger, or data included.

12.3.0 [Jan 2020]

  • prefer @titleCase instead of #TitleCase tag
  • update dependencies
  • fix case-sensitive paths
  • fix greedy-start match condition regression #651
  • fix single period sentence runtime error
  • fix potentially-unsafe regexes
  • improved tagging for '-ed' verbs (#616)
  • improve support for auxilary-pastTense ('was lifted') verb-phrases
  • more robust number-tagging regexes
  • setup typescript types for plugins #661 (thanks @Drache93!)
  • verb conjugation and tagger bugfixes
  • disambiguate between acronyms & yelling
12.2.1 [Dec 2019]
  • fix 'aint' contraction
  • make Doc.world writable
  • update deps
  • more tests
  • fix shared period with acronym at end of sentence
  • fix some mis-classification of contraction
  • fix over-active emoji regex
  • tag 'cookin', 'hootin' as Gerund
  • support unicode single-quote symbols in contractions

12.2.0 [Dec 2019]

  • improved splitting in .nouns()
  • add .nouns().adjectives() method
  • add concat param to .pre() and .post()
  • allow ellipses at start of term "....so" in @hasEllipses
  • fix matches with optional-end foo?$ match syntax
  • add typescript types for subsets

12.1.0 [Nov 2019]

  • add 'sideEffect:false' flag to build
  • considerable speedup (20%) in tagger
  • ensure trimming of whitespace for root/clean/reduced text formats
  • fix client-side logging
  • more flexible params to replace() and replaceWith()

12.0.0   📯 [Nov 2019]

11.13.0

  • support singular units in .value()

11.11.0

  • .quotations() no-longer return repeated results for nested quotes
  • simplify quotation tagset
  • .out('normal') no longer includes quotes or trailing-possessives
  • improve .debug() on client-side

11.10.0

  • better honorific support, add honorifics feature to .normalize()
  • elipses bugfixes
  • replace unicode chars in .normalize() now by default
  • acronyms().stripPeriods() and acronyms().addPeriods()

11.9.0

  • tag professions as #Actor
  • add more behaviours to .normalize()
  • support match-results as inputs to .match() and .not()
  • support some us-state abbreviations like 'Phoeniz AZ'

11.8.0

  • add nouns().toPossessive()
  • ngrams now remove empty-terms in contractions - fixes counting issue #476

11.7.0

  • expose internal sentences().isQuestion() method
  • .join() as an alias for .flatten()
  • slightly different behavior for wildcards in capture-groups pull/472
  • .possessives() subset + #Possessive tagging fixes
  • hide massive world output for console.log of a term

11.6.0

  • improve quotations() method
  • add .parentheses() method
  • add 'nickname' support to .people()
  • 'will be #Adjective' now tagged as Copula
  • include adverbs in verb conjugation (more) consistently
  • sentences().toContinuous() and verbs().toGerund()
  • some more aliases for jquery-like methods api
  • move getPunctuation, setPunctuation from .sentence to main Text method
  • rename internal endPunctuation to getPunctuation
  • more consistent cardinal/ordinal tagging for values

11.5.0

  • add #Abbreviation tag
  • add #ProperNoun tag
  • fixes for noun inflection
11.4.1
  • include old ending punctuation in a .replace() cmd
11.3.1
  • almost-double the support for first-names
  • changes to bestTag method
11.2.1
  • rolls-back some aggressive JustesonKatz stuff
  • better support for emdash numberRange
  • 'can't' contraction bugfix
  • fix for dates().toShortForm()

11.1.0

  • add #Multiple Values tag, and changes to how invalid numbers like 'sixty fifteen hundred' are understood
  • better em-dash/en-dash support
  • better conjugate implicit verbs inside contractions - "i'm", "we've"
  • nouns().articles() method
  • neighborhoods as #Place
  • support more complex noun-phrases with JustesonKatz in .nouns()

v11

  • support for persistent lexicon/tagset changes
  • addTags, addWords, addRegs, addPlurals, addConjugations methods to extend native data
    • .plugin() method to wrap all of these into one
    • (removal of .packWords() method)
  • more .organizations() matches
  • regex-support in .match() - nlp('it is waaaay cool').match('/aaa/').out()//'waaaay'
  • improved apostrophe-s disambiguation
  • support whitespace before sentence boundary
  • improved QuestionWord tagging, some .questions() without a question-mark
  • phrasalVerb conjugation
  • new #Activity tag for Gerunds as nouns 'walking is fun'
  • change ngram params to an object {size:int, max:int}
  • implement '[]' capture-group syntax in .match()
  • bring-back map, filter, foreach and reduce methods
  • set .words() as alias for .terms()
  • people().firstNames(), people().lastNames()
  • split-out comma-separated adverbs
10.7.2
  • fix for '.watch' reserved word in efrt

10.7.0

  • improved places() parsing
  • improved {min,max} match syntax
  • new .out('match') method
  • quiet addition of .pack() and .unpack() for owen

10.6.0

  • move internal lexicon around, to support new format in v11
  • added states & provinces as #Region
  • added #Comparable tag for adjectives that conjugate

10.5.0

  • add increment/decrement/add/subtract methods to .values()
  • add units(), noUnits() methods to .values()
  • 'uncountable' nouns are no longer assumed to be singular
  • money tag is no longer always a value

10.4.0

  • improved tagging of VerbPhrase and Condition
  • fixes to contractions in sentence-changes - "i'm going -> i went"
  • several verb conjugation fixes
  • accept Terms & Result objects in .match() and .replace()

10.3.0

  • new Percent tag
  • lump more units in with .values()

10.2.0

  • .trim() method,
  • adjective tagging fixes
  • some new .out() methods

10.1.0

  • fix return format of .isPlural(), so it acts like a match filter
  • less-greedy date tagging & ambiguous month fixes

v10

  • cleanup & rename some .value() methods
  • change lumping behaviour of lexicon terms with multiple words
  • keep more former tags after a term replace method
  • new .random() method
  • new .lessThan(), .greaterThan(), .equalTo() methods
  • new prefix/suffix/infix matches with _ffix syntax
  • tag() supports a sequence of tags for a sequence of terms
  • .match 'range' queries now use a real match - #Adverb{2,4}
  • new .before() and .after() match methods
  • removes .lexicon() method for many-lexicons concept
  • changes params of .replaceWith() method to a 'keyTags' boolean
  • improved .debug() and logging on client-side

9.1.0

  • pretty-real filesize reduction by swapping es6 classes for es5 inheritance

v9.0.0

  • rename Term.tag object to Term.tags so the .tag() method can work throughout more-consistently
  • fix 'Auxillary' tag typo to 'Auxiliary'
  • optimisation of .match(), and tagset - significant speedup!
  • adds .tagger() method and cleanup extra params
  • adds wordStart and wordEnd offsets to .out('offset') for whitespace+punctuation
  • new .has() method for faster lookups

8.2.0

  • add nlp.out('index') method, 12 bugs

8.1.0

  • add nlp.tokenize() method for disabling pos-tagging of input

v8.0.0

  • less-ambitious date-parsing of nl-date forms
  • filesize reduction using efrt data structure (254k -> 214k)
7.0.15
  • fix for IE9

v7   📯

6.5.0

  • builds now using browserify + derequire()

6.4.0

  • re-written term-lumper logic

6.3.0

  • new nlp.lexicon({word:'POS'}) flow

v6

  • be consistent with text.normal(), term.all_forms(), text.word_count(). text.normal() includes sentence-terminators, like periods etc.

5.2.0

  • airport codes support, helper methods for specific POS

5.1.0

  • newlines split sentences

v5

  • Text methods now return this, instead of array of sentences

4.12.0

  • more-sensible responses for invalid, non-string inputs

4.11.0

  • 14 PRs, with fixes for currencies, pluralization, conjugation

4.10.0

  • Value.to_text() new method, fix "Posessive" POS typo

4.9.0

  • return of the text.spot() method (Re:#107)

4.8.0

  • more aggressive lumping of dates, like 'last week of february'

4.7.0

  • whitespace reproduction in .text() methods

4.6.0

  • move negate from sentence to verb & statement

4.2.0

  • rename 'implicit' to 'expansion' for smarter contractions
4.1.3
  • added readable-compression to adj, verbs (121kb -> 117kb)

4.1.0

  • hyphenated words are normalized into spaces

v4.0.0

  • grammar-aware match & replace functions
3.0.2
  • Statement & Question classes

v3.0.0 Feb 2016

  • split ngram, locale, and syllables into plugins in seperate repo

2.0.0 - Nov 2015

  • es6 classes, babel building
  • better test coverage
  • ngram uses term tokenization, so that 'Tony Hawk' us one term, and not two
  • more organized pos rules
  • Pos tagging is done implicitly now once nlp.Text is run
  • Entity spotting is split into .people(), .place(), .organisations()
  • unicode normalisation is killed
  • opaque two-letter tags are gone
  • plugin support
  • passive tense detection
  • lexicon can be augmented third-party
  • date parsing results are different
1.1.0 - May 2015
  • smarter handling of ambiguous contractions ("he's" -> ["he is", "he has"])

v1.0.0 - May 2015

  • added name genders and beginning of co-reference resolution ('Tony' -> 'he') API.
  • small breaking change on Noun.is_plural and Noun.is_entity, affording significant pos() speedup. Bumped Major version for these changes.
0.5.2 - May 2015
  • Phrasal verbs ('step up'), firstnames and .people()
0.4.0 - May 2015
  • Major file-size reduction through refactoring
0.3.0 - Jan 2015
  • New NER choosing algorithm, better capitalisation logic, consolidated tests
0.2.0 - Nov 2014
  • Sentence class methods, client-side demos