diff --git a/libmwereader/mwe.cpp b/libmwereader/mwe.cpp
index 9397a4f1f486afc0024c920da88ec60b0179ce33..8db796cc39e18bcb871007a0407af8d7c9f0edb5 100644
--- a/libmwereader/mwe.cpp
+++ b/libmwereader/mwe.cpp
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ bool LexicalUnit::IsHere(const Wccl::SentenceContext &sc,
 	for(variables_map::const_iterator ivars = variables_.begin();
 		ivars != variables_.end(); ++ivars){			
 			if(!boost::starts_with(ivars->first, "!")){
-				std::cout << ivars->first << " " << std::endl;
+				//std::cout << ivars->first << " " << std::endl;
 				condition_->set<Wccl::StrSet>(ivars->first, ivars->second);
 			}
 		}
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ void MWEIndex::add_lexicalunit(LexicalUnit::Ptr lu)
 {
 	foreach(const std::string& base, lu->get_potential_bases()){
 		value_type::iterator find = index_.find(base);
-		std::cout << "b:"<<base<<std::endl;
+		//std::cout << "b:"<<base<<std::endl;
 		if(find == index_.end()){ // not found -> create new one
 			luvec v;
 			v.push_back(lu);
@@ -118,8 +118,8 @@ void MWEIndex::add_lexicalunit(LexicalUnit::Ptr lu)
 }
 
 const MWEIndex::luvec& MWEIndex::get_potential_lu(const std::string &base){
-	std::cout << "index " << index_.size()<< std::endl;
-	std::cout << "sb:"<<base<<std::endl;
+	//std::cout << "index " << index_.size()<< std::endl;
+	//std::cout << "sb:"<<base<<std::endl;
 	value_type::iterator find = index_.find(base);
 	if(find == index_.end()){ // not found -> return empty
 		return empty_;
diff --git a/libmwereader/mweparser.cpp b/libmwereader/mweparser.cpp
index c4453f140b011f2131fcb02dbff16a106ad1e46d..5f47abe17be94ea1a37ebce8463a4d8e266cb6f1 100644
--- a/libmwereader/mweparser.cpp
+++ b/libmwereader/mweparser.cpp
@@ -111,9 +111,7 @@ namespace Corpus2 {
 	void MWEParser::on_start_element(const Glib::ustring &name,
 			const AttributeList& attributes)
 	{
-		std::cout << "about to check" << std::endl;
-		std::cout << state_ << ": " << name << std::endl;
-		std::cout << "done with check" << std::endl;
+		//std::cout << state_ << ": " << name << std::endl;
 		if(state_ == NONE && name == "units_description"){
 			tagset_ = get_attribute(attributes, "tagset");
 			mwe_builder_ = boost::shared_ptr<MWEBuilder>(new MWEBuilder(Corpus2::get_named_tagset(tagset_)));