Can refer to the already packaged model in StanfordCoreNLP library jar, instead of having duplicate copy of the model in the project working directory for this purpose?.
Properties configuration = new Properties();
configuration.put("annotators", "tokenize,ssplit,pos,lemma,ner");
configuration.put("ner.model", "english.all.3class.distsim.crf.ser.gz");
StanfordCoreNLP coreNLP = new StanfordCoreNLP(configuration);
ps: The question was a part of another SO question which went unanswered.
This path:
edu/stanford/nlp/models/ner/english.all.3class.distsim.crf.ser.gz
is in stanford-corenlp-3.7.0-models.jar.
So if you put that in your properties, it will be loaded from the jar.