Reply to the Reviewer #1
We thank the reviewer for thoroughly reading our work and for the valuable comments that greatly helped to improve our paper.
1. Minor comments
Comment: In the Abstract: Please change “Our numerical results show that our approach leads to a better accuracy and a better Matthews correlation coefficient for biased samples compared to random forests by majority vote, even if only few labeled points are available.” to “Our numerical results show that our approach leads to better accuracy and a better Matthews correlation coefficient for biased samples compared to random forests by majority vote, even if only a few labeled points are available.”
Reply: Thanks for the suggestion. We changed it accordingly.
Comment: On page 2: Please change “In particular, our numerical results show that our approach leads to a better accuracy and a better Matthews correlation coefficient for biased samples compared to random forests by majority vote, even if only few labeled points are available.” to “In particular, our numerical results show that our approach leads to better accuracy and a better Matthews correlation coefficient for biased samples compared to random forests by majority vote, even if only a few labeled points are available.”
Reply: Done.
Comment: On page 11: Please change “Once can see that RF almost always takes less than 1 s to solve the problem.” to “One can see that RF almost always takes less than 1 s to solve the problem.”
Reply: Done.
Comment: For Tables 2-3 captions, you may provide more key explanatory information to interpret the results shown.
Reply: Good idea. We also changed the tables a bit. The best values
are now printed in bold and we discussed this also briefly in the
caption.
Comment: For Figure 2 captions, you may provide more key explanatory information to interpret the results shown.
Reply: Since Figure 2 is on Page 12 and on Page 11 (directly before
the figure), we discuss this figure, it is okay to keep the caption
short here. We hope that this is acceptable for you.
Comment: In the Conclusions section, you may also discuss potential extensions and future work in addition to summarizing the work in the paper.
Reply: Thanks for this idea. We extended the conclusion accordingly.