• Build and implement the Payload system: #828, #892, #896
• Improve Computer Vision integration: #879, #877, #876, #891, #893
• Data-efficiency improvement: #849, #882, #886, #899
• Improve documentation and tutorials: #854, #846, #889, #897
• Several clean up and bug fixes: #852, #854, #861, #870, #872,
• This is a pre-release version and some features are still in development. The recommended version right now is forte==0.2.0.

• Add a new tutorial for building machine translation system: #818, #826
• Fix issues in documentation and tutorials: #825, #799, #830
• Improve data augmentation: #784
• Data-efficiency improvement: #834, #839, #692, #842
• This is a pre-release version and some features are still in development. The recommended version right now is forte==0.2.0.

• Data-efficiency improvement
  • Use new data structures such as list/tuples store the data in order to optimize the speed of operations such as add, query, get (type, range, attribute), delete, etc.
  • #782, #796, #779, #801, #769, #771, #800, #680, #814, data-efficiency project, data-efficiency issues
• A prototyped Computer Vision design and example
  • #795, #813
• This is a pre-release version and some features are still in development. The recommended version right now is forte==0.2.0.

• Add functionalities to data augmentation (#532, #536, #543, #554, #619, #685, #717)
• Fix issues in examples and create some new ones (#545, #624, #529, #632, #708, #711)
• Improve doctoring and refactor documentation (#611, #633, #636, #642, #652, #653, #657, #668, #674, #686, #682, #723, #730, #724)
• Add audio support to DataPack (#585, #592, #600, #603, #609)
• Improve and fix issues in ontology system (#568, #575, #577, #521)
• Relax package requirements and move out dependencies (#705, #706, #707, #720, #760)
• Add readers and selectors (#535, #516, #539)
• Create some utilities for pipeline (#499, #690, #562)
• Provide more operations for DataPack and MultiPack (#531, #534, #555, #564, #553, #576)
• Several clean up and bug fixes (#541, #693, #695)

• Simplify the Configurable interface (#517)
• Simplify batcher and batch processing interface (#514, #522)
• Add a DiffAligner to auto align outputs from 3rd party tools (#505)
• Add more augmentation methods (#519, #261)
• Fix a few examples and training interface (#507, #510, #332, #506, #338, #331)
• Several clean up and bug fixes (#509, #496, #494, #495)

1. Implemented connection with Stave (#440).
2. Introduce pipeline consistency check, and enhance pipeline consistency check at the initialization stage (#459, #461, #437).
3. Introduce ftx package to store non-core ontology (#471).
4. Introduce Forte remote processor and service validation (#477, #476)
5. Update code formatting with Black (#474)
6. Rename references to forte-wrapper in the core code, and remove un-wanted dependencies(#471, #467, #466, #465, #454)
7. Added more examples (#469)
8. Allow forte.get function to take string directly (#452)
9. More bug fixes and general interface edits.

This release includes:

1. A more stable implementation of Extractor
2. Re-organize some packages names to avoid accidental cyclic imports
3. Fix a few pipeline control bugs related to selector and caster

The post1 release fixes the problem where some non-core folders are not excluded.

Test auto release

Bug fixes on HParams and readers

1. Routine bug fixes
2. More integration is done with Stave
3. Hide more internal members from outside
4. Substitute based data augmentation processors implemented