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Alternatives: During the run, it is reconfigured. We won't consider this for now.

What is configuration?

This is the set of parameters, Configuration is a collection of things, set for a particular UIMA pipeline run. It can include things like conventional UIMA parameter settings, as well as other kinds of settings such as "placeholder" values that are substituted into UIMA deployment descriptors, things like debug flags, dump the CAS flags, the logging specification for the run, etc.

Orthogonal issues and considerations in configuring UIMA pipelines

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