URI is not hierarchical exception when location model resource is inside a jar in classpath

The following error happens when location NER model resource is packaged inside a jar and GeoTopicParser is enabled.

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI is not hierarchical
	at java.io.File.<init>(File.java:418)
	at org.apache.tika.parser.geo.topic.GeoParserConfig.<init>(GeoParserConfig.java:33)
	at org.apache.tika.parser.geo.topic.GeoParser.<init>(GeoParser.java:54)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:422)
	at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:442)
	at org.apache.tika.config.TikaConfig$XmlLoader.loadOne(TikaConfig.java:559)
	at org.apache.tika.config.TikaConfig$XmlLoader.loadOverall(TikaConfig.java:492)
	at org.apache.tika.config.TikaConfig.<init>(TikaConfig.java:166)
	at org.apache.tika.config.TikaConfig.<init>(TikaConfig.java:149)
	at org.apache.tika.config.TikaConfig.<init>(TikaConfig.java:142)
	at org.apache.tika.config.TikaConfig.<init>(TikaConfig.java:138)
	at edu.usc.cs.ir.cwork.tika.Parser.<init>(Parser.java:45)