- REST API:
* various bugfixes
* new default value `true` for the postfilter parameter
* don't allow pickle objects in user-defined configuration
* allow built-in postfilters in user-defined annotators
* background loading uses threads (concurrent.futures) instead of subprocesses (multiprocessing) -- more stable now
- new formats:
* europepmc and europepmc.zip (output)
* *bionlp* (output)
* *brat.ann*, *bionlp.ann*, *txt* (output) (individual files of bionlp and brat)
* *conll* (input and output)
- fixes to input/output formats:
* *pmc* (more robust)
* *tsv* (no newlines/tabs inside mentions)
- new normalization method: ise/ize spelling
- fixes to document/collection iteration
- evaluation: misc improvements