Merge branch 'release/2.0.0'

* release/2.0.0: (237 commits)
  2.0.0
  More logging refinements
  more logging refinements
  added missing text
  Fine-tuned logging settings
  minor improvements to code clarity
  Fixed generation of help file
  fine tuning file filters
  Main window now listens to preferences and updates UI if needed
  Not needed here
  catch NPE
  A new segment of the splash screen shows info about first version launch
  HelpWindow has a new page "What's New?" that shows the changelog. HTML file is created in the release profile of the build
  on closing, we store the current version
  mac packaging is now its own profile
  sorted alphabetically
  Formatting
  fixes #356
  Entity sorting is now in the view menu
  Updated version of ikonli
  ...

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -3,6 +3,42 @@
 Issue numbers (e.g., #43) refer to GitHub issues:
 https://github.com/nilsreiter/CorefAnnotator/issues
 
+## 2.0.0
+
+- New: Discontinuous annotations. A single mention can now 
+  consist of multiple spans. Mention parts, that have been used for 
+  relative clauses and such are gone. Add a new span to a mention by
+  dragging it onto the mention in the tree. #293, #104
+- New: Analysis functions. From the main window, files can 
+  now be opened in the analyzer view, which offers 
+  visualizations and some statistics for the annotations. #292
+- New: Annotation guidelines can now be linked via a profile. They
+  appear directly in the Help menu. #12
+- Files are now saved with a specific file extension to avoid confusion
+  and accidental decompression. The file extension is .ca2 for uncompressed, 
+  git-friendly files and .ca2z for gzip compressed files. Compression  
+  makes the files roughly ten times smaller. #335
+- Search is now case-insensitive by default #320
+- Various UI tweaks 
+- Main window now shows a section if a version is opened for the first time
+- Updated Dependencies
+  - log4j: 2.12.1 -> 2.13.3
+  - guava: 28.1-jre -> 30.1-jre
+  - reflections: 0.9.11 -> 0.9.12
+  - mockito: 3.1.0 -> 3.4.4
+  - dkpro: 1.9.0 -> 2.1.0
+  - uima: 2.10.2 -> 3.1.1
+  - eclipse collections: 9.2.0 -> 10.2.0
+  - javafx: 13.0.1 -> 14.0.2.1
+  - ikonli: 2.1.1 -> 11.5.0
+  - poi: 4.1.1 -> 4.1.2
+
+
+## 1.15.2
+
+- Command line tool ExportMultipleFiles no longer tries to descend into 
+  sub directories #367
+
 ## 1.15.1
 
 - Files without segments no longer show empty parentheses in tree view #311

README.md

@@ -11,15 +11,16 @@ This is an annotation tool for coreference. It's built on top of [Apache's UIMA]
 ## Features
 
 - Supports annotation of long texts with many discourse entities
+- Mentions can be non-continuous
 - Intuitive drag and drop operations
 - Fully operable by keyboard for fast annotation
 - Annotation texts can be formatted
 - Search function to navigate in long texts
 - Localisable in other languages (currently: English and German)
-- Import and export in a few file formats
+- Import and export in a few file formats, including Excel for easy analysis
 - Automatically generated candidates
 - Search terms (including regular expressions) can be annotated en bloc
-
+- Visualization and some simple quantitative analysis of the annotations
 
 ## Requirements and Installation