Coverage is April 1989 through May 1999. KEDS coding dictionaries and an index of the phrases generating each actor and verb code are also included. The data set is compressed using the .zip format. The data set contains about 53,000 events. These data sets were generated for the purpose of investigating interaCtions in regional conflicts.
Files ending in .actors are the actor lists for each region.
Files ending in .verbs are the verb patterns which code to a WEIS category. Each is coded from Reuters lead sentences with date ranges and number of event given below.