Middle East Political Events Data, 1979-1995

This study is a collection of machine-coded events using the coding scheme employed in BEHAVIORAL CORRELATES OF WAR, 1816-1975 (ICPSR 8606) (BCOW) to create a continuous time series of data on interstate interaction covering the Levant area (countries bordering on the eastern Mediterranean sea). The collection was produced by a computer program, developed at the University of Kansas, which reads in Reuters News Service reports and parses the first sentence (the lead) into the three main components (subject, verb, and object). The Kansas Events Data System (KEDS) program then recodes these components according to the BCOW coding scheme. This data collection is the first using the BCOW scheme that is completely machine-coded. Each yearly dataset contains four variables: date, source (subject), target (object), and action (verb). Dictionary files that match the actual person, group, or event to the coded value are provided. In addition, the principal investigator has provided information on linking the datasets for longitudinal analysis.

本项研究系对《1816-1975年战争行为相关因素》（ICPSR 8606，简称BCOW）所采用的编码方案进行机器编码的事件集合。该集合旨在构建涵盖黎凡特地区（毗邻东地中海海边的国家）国家间互动的连续时间序列数据。此收集工作由堪萨斯大学开发的一套计算机程序完成，该程序读取路透社新闻服务报道，并解析首句（导语）中的三个主要成分（主语、谓语和宾语）。随后，堪萨斯事件数据系统（KEDS）程序根据BCOW编码方案对这些成分进行重新编码。该数据集合是首次完全采用机器编码的BCOW方案。每个年度数据集包含四个变量：日期、来源（主语）、目标（宾语）和行动（谓语）。此外，还提供了匹配实际人物、团体或事件与编码值的字典文件。研究的主要调查员还提供了关于数据集纵向分析连接的信息。