Install stanford-corenlp with Homebrew, MacPorts

Project links

• Homepage

Commands and aliases

• corenlp.sh

Project history

The official release history says the earliest open-source software now comprising CoreNLP was the Stanford Parser, released on 5 December 2002, and that the first unified public package tying together the Stanford NLP tools was released on 1 November 2010. The project is maintained by the Stanford NLP Group and distributed with Java APIs, command-line usage, a server, model jars, Maven artifacts, and a GitHub repository.

Adoption history

CoreNLP became a common packaged NLP workhorse because it exposed research-grade annotators through stable Java artifacts and command-line/server entry points. Its documentation explicitly notes that many users call it from JavaScript, Python, and other languages, and it maintains a page of wrappers and clients in many language ecosystems.

How it is used

A typical command-line run downloads the distribution and model jars, puts them on the Java classpath, and runs `java edu.stanford.nlp.pipeline.StanfordCoreNLP -file input.txt`. The same package can also be used through Java APIs, a simple API, third-party clients, or the CoreNLP server.

Why package nerds care

Package maintainers care about CoreNLP because it packages large model artifacts, Java classpath behavior, and multi-language wrapper expectations into a CLI-friendly distribution. It is the kind of tool where a working package saves users from jar management, model placement, and wrapper-version drift.

Timeline

• 2002: Stanford Parser is released as the earliest open-source software later comprising CoreNLP.
• 2010: First unified CoreNLP package is publicly released.
• 2014: The CoreNLP system-demonstration paper is published.
• 2020: Version 4.0.0 updates tokenization and models around UDv2.
• 2025: Version 4.5.10 removes patterns/Lucene-related features for security reasons.

Related projects

• CoreNLP includes or relates to Stanford Parser, Stanford NER, Stanford POS Tagger, dependency parsing, SUTime, TokensRegex, Tregex/Tsurgeon, Stanza clients, Maven artifacts, and model jars.

Sources

• https://stanfordnlp.github.io/CoreNLP/: official overview, GitHub link, quickstart, usage modes, license, and citation.
• https://stanfordnlp.github.io/CoreNLP/history.html: official release history from 2002 parser origins through CoreNLP releases.
• https://stanfordnlp.github.io/CoreNLP/other-languages.html: official page of language clients and wrappers.