DEVELOPMENT: Counting Counts

Counting What Counts: Decompounding for Keyphrase Extraction

A core assumption of keyphrase extraction is that a concept is more important if it is mentioned more often in a document. Especially in languages like German that form large noun compounds, frequency counts might be misleading as concepts “hidden” in compounds are not counted. We hypothesize that using decompounding before counting term frequencies may lead to better keyphrase extraction. We i...

Physical therapy counts: counting physical therapists worldwide

Background It is evident that if something is not counted, and physical therapists (PTs) are not generally counted in international health statistics, no one knows how many there are, neither can they measure their contribution to population health or monitor their migration. The World Health Report [1] provides statistics on doctors and nurses primarily. Few data are reported on other health p...

Counting what counts: performance and effectiveness in the humanitarian sector

How to Discount Double-Counting When It Counts: Some Clarifications

The issues of double-counting, use-constructing, and selection effects have long been the subject of debate in the philosophical as well as statistical literature. I have argued that it is the severity, stringency, or probativeness of the test—or lack of it—that should determine if a double-use of data is admissible. Hitchcock and Sober ([2004]) question whether this ‘severity criterion’ can pe...

The Impact of Factoring Traffic Counts for Daily and Monthly Variation in Reducing Sample Counting Error

Linn County Regional Planning Commission, 6th Floor City Hall, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401. Transportation agencies often determine what the annual average daily traffic (AADT) count is on streets and highways by counting traffic for short time periods (usually for 24 hours) and then estimating the AADT based on this count and a numerical factor that takes into account dayof-week and/or seasonal v...