diff --git a/tika-core/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/config/Param.java b/tika-core/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/config/Param.java
index 7de36acbc2..a92b9ff9ad 100644
--- a/tika-core/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/config/Param.java
+++ b/tika-core/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/config/Param.java
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.Map;
@@ -90,7 +89,6 @@ public class Param<T> implements Serializable {
 
     //one of these two is used for serialization
     private final List<String> valueStrings = new ArrayList<>();
-    private final Map<String, String> valueMap = new LinkedHashMap<>();
 
     private Class<T> type;
     private String name;
@@ -105,9 +103,7 @@ public Param(String name, Class<T> type, T value) {
         this.actualValue = value;
         if (List.class.isAssignableFrom(value.getClass())) {
             this.valueStrings.addAll((List) value);
-        } else if (Map.class.isAssignableFrom(value.getClass())) {
-            valueMap.putAll((Map)value);
-        } else {
+        } else if (!Map.class.isAssignableFrom(value.getClass())) {
             this.valueStrings.add(value.toString());
         }
         if (this.type == null) {
@@ -250,7 +246,6 @@ private static <T> void loadMap(Param<T> ret, Node root) throws TikaConfigExcept
                     throw new TikaConfigException("Duplicate keys are not allowed: " + key);
                 }
                 ((Map)ret.actualValue).put(key, value);
-                ret.valueMap.put(key, value);
             }
             child = child.getNextSibling();
         }
diff --git a/tika-eval/tika-eval-app/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/eval/app/reports/Report.java b/tika-eval/tika-eval-app/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/eval/app/reports/Report.java
index 4c2274ac95..6982aaad6d 100644
--- a/tika-eval/tika-eval-app/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/eval/app/reports/Report.java
+++ b/tika-eval/tika-eval-app/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/eval/app/reports/Report.java
@@ -27,9 +27,7 @@
 import java.sql.Statement;
 import java.sql.Types;
 import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.Map;
-import java.util.Set;
 
 import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Cell;
 import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.CellStyle;
@@ -100,14 +98,12 @@ private void dumpReportToWorkbook(Statement st, SXSSFWorkbook wb)
 
             int rowCount = 0;
             ResultSetMetaData meta = rs.getMetaData();
-            Set<String> colNames = new HashSet<>();
 
             Row xssfRow = sheet.createRow(rowCount++);
             //write headers and cache them to check against styles
             for (int i = 1; i <= meta.getColumnCount(); i++) {
                 Cell cell = xssfRow.createCell(i - 1);
                 cell.setCellValue(meta.getColumnLabel(i));
-                colNames.add(meta.getColumnLabel(i));
             }
 
             ResultSetMetaData resultSetMetaData = rs.getMetaData();
diff --git a/tika-example/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/example/TextStatsFromTikaEval.java b/tika-example/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/example/TextStatsFromTikaEval.java
index d12f4b08a9..e2a9fbb839 100644
--- a/tika-example/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/example/TextStatsFromTikaEval.java
+++ b/tika-example/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/example/TextStatsFromTikaEval.java
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ public double getOOV(String txt) {
          */
 
         CommonTokenResult result = (CommonTokenResult) results.get(CommonTokens.class);
-        result.getLangCode();
         return result.getOOV();
     }
 }