International Studies Association paper, April ...

This paper describes the news sources and some of their characteristics, the various pro- cessing steps that are used in generating the data, some comparisons with the KEDS Levants/Reuters and ICEWS/Asia data sets, and some visualizations. We conclude with an outline of planned enhancements to the data in the near future: these include recoding with new WordNet-enhanced dictionaries, the extension of the CAMEO cod- ing to incorporate codes for financial events, disease outbreaks and natural disasters, and the development of an open-source Python-based successor to Tabari which will use parsed input from existing natural language processing tools.