title: Issue Installing OpenNLP
body: <p>I'm having an issue installing OpenNLP. I am hoping that the brilliance of the hive-mind of Stack can help me out here. I admit I'm not very familiar with using Java extensions/plug-ins, so any help would be greatly appreciated. </p>
  
  <p>I have installed Maven. When I run <code>mvn --version</code> I receive the following:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>Apache Maven 3.0.4 (r1232337; 2012-01-17 03:44:56-0500)
  Maven home: /Users/[my_name]/apache-maven-3.0.4
  Java version: 1.6.0_33, vendor: Apple Inc.
  Java home: /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home
  Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: MacRoman
  OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.7.4", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I go to the OpenNLP directory, <code>/Users/[my_name]/apache-opennlp-1.5.2</code>, and run <code>mvn clean install</code>, I receive this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[INFO] Scanning for projects...
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] BUILD FAILURE
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Total time: 0.151s
  [INFO] Finished at: Sat Jul 07 12:53:54 EDT 2012
  [INFO] Final Memory: 2M/81M
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [ERROR] The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM in this directory (/Users/[my_name]/apache-opennlp-1.5.2). Please verify you invoked Maven from the correct directory. -&gt; [Help 1]
  [ERROR] 
  [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
  [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
  [ERROR] 
  [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
  [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MissingProjectException
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I don't completely understand this error. If someone could explain what I need to do to fix it, I would really appreciate it.</p>
  
  <p>Adam</p>