The question of when to use uima descriptor parameters vs resources has come up
offline recently. My understanding is that resources are valuable for things
like large model files, where it can be loaded once by UIMA and then shared
between pipelines. I happened to notice that in the dependency parser, which
has an uncommonly large model file, the model filename is a parameter, and from
what I can tell the model will be loaded separately for each pipeline. Is this
something that should be fixed or is there some reasoning against using the
resource mechanism in this instance or in general?
Tim
