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personal #Personal reflections  I think that MTD is a powerful concept with a very elegant algorithm. The paper is well-written and it is easy to follow for anyone with a background in data mining - for me it represented a bit of a difficulty as I have a base in statistics and network science but not this kind of technical data mining that the paper preconditions. It is important to put this paper in the right context: it is a theory paper, the latest in a long succession of topic modeling papers published by the author group over the past 4-5 years, which were sequentially built upon each other. First, they extensively studied the LDA algorithm, then they extended it with must-link mining and eventually with cannot-link mining. Unless one goes through the previous bibliography, then mathematical theory could be too fast-paced to follow. The description is quite clear until the cannot-links. I think the strongest weakness of the paper comes at this point, while they provide the mathematical model to map the cannot-links, they only explain the method and its plausibility vaguely.