diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/lucene/VitroQueryParser.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/lucene/VitroQueryParser.java
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-/* $This file is distributed under the terms of the license in /doc/license.txt$ */
-
-package edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.lucene;
-
-import java.util.HashMap;
-import org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer;
-import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
-import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.*;
-import org.apache.lucene.search.MatchAllDocsQuery;
-import org.apache.lucene.search.PrefixQuery;
-import org.apache.lucene.search.WildcardQuery;
-
-/**
- * This is a QueryParser that will fall back to unstemmed
- * field for WildcardQueries and PrefixQueries.
- *
- * @author bdc34 a cornell dot edu
- */
-public class VitroQueryParser extends QueryParser {
-    /**
-     * Map from stemmed field names to the names of fields with the
-     * same terms but unstemmed.
-     */
-    HashMap <String,String> stemmedToUnstemmed;
-
-    public VitroQueryParser(String f, Analyzer a) {super(f, a); }
-    public VitroQueryParser(CharStream stream) {super(stream);  }
-    public VitroQueryParser(QueryParserTokenManager tm) {super(tm); }
-
-    /**
-     * Sets the map of field name to field name where
-     * the key maps to the name of the field with the unstemmed
-     * version of the same terms.
-     * @param stemmedToUnstemmed
-     */
-    public void setStemmedToUnstemmed(HashMap<String, String> stemmedToUnstemmed) {
-        this.stemmedToUnstemmed = stemmedToUnstemmed;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * attempts to get a field name for the unstemmed data of
-     * the given stemmedField data.  Returns stemmedField
-     * if there is not mapping in stemmedToUnstemmed.
-     * @param stemmedField
-     * @return
-     */
-    public String getUnstemmed(String stemmedField){
-        if( stemmedField == null ||
-            stemmedToUnstemmed == null ||
-            !stemmedToUnstemmed.containsKey(stemmedField))
-            return stemmedField;
-        else
-            return stemmedToUnstemmed.get(stemmedField);
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    protected org.apache.lucene.search.Query getPrefixQuery(String field, String termStr)
-    throws ParseException {
-        
-        if ( termStr.startsWith("*") )
-            throw new ParseException("'*' not allowed as first character in PrefixQuery");
-
-        //down case the terms that would have been down cased by the analyzer on index.
-        if (  Entity2LuceneDoc.term.ALLTEXT.equals(field) ||
-                Entity2LuceneDoc.term.ALLTEXTUNSTEMMED.equals(field) ||
-                Entity2LuceneDoc.term.KEYWORDS.equals(field)  ) {                               
-            termStr = termStr.toLowerCase();
-        }
-
-        Term t = new Term(field, termStr);
-        return new PrefixQuery(t);                 
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    protected org.apache.lucene.search.Query getWildcardQuery(String field, String termStr)
-    throws ParseException {                
-          if ( (termStr.startsWith("*") || termStr.startsWith("?")) )
-            throw new ParseException("'*' or '?' not allowed as first character in WildcardQuery");
-          
-          //down case the terms that would have been down cased by the analyzer on index.
-          if (  Entity2LuceneDoc.term.ALLTEXT.equals(field) ||
-                  Entity2LuceneDoc.term.ALLTEXTUNSTEMMED.equals(field) ||
-                  Entity2LuceneDoc.term.KEYWORDS.equals(field)  ) {                               
-            termStr = termStr.toLowerCase();
-          }
-          
-          Term t = new Term(field, termStr);
-          return new WildcardQuery(t);        
-    }
-    
-    
-    @Override
-    protected org.apache.lucene.search.Query getFieldQuery(String arg0,
-            String arg1) throws ParseException {
-        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
-        return super.getFieldQuery(arg0, arg1);
-    }
-    
-    
-}