changelog.md

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.

14.15.0 [Feb 2026]

• [update] - support for Typescript 7 #1198
• [update] - dependencies

14.14.5 [Dec 2025]

• [fix] - update types #1181
• [update] - add nelissa and gert #1180
• [fix] - sentence tokenization issues #1194 and #1193
• [update] - prefer const to let
• [new] - experimental cmd-k plugin
• [update] - dependencies

14.14.4 [Jan 2025]

• [fix] - TypeScript & esm resolution #1165

14.14.3 [Dec 2024]

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

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]

• see Release Notes

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   📯

• weee! big change! npm package rename

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