PLOVER_lists.txt

"""
Assorted useful Python-formated lists including PLOVER categories, 4-character category abbreviations, and contexts.

PLOVERLIST      PLOVER event categories

CONTEXTLIST     PLOVER context categories

MODEDICT        PLOVER mode lists indexed by event category

PLOV2FOUR       Table translating PLOVER event categories to 4-character codes

FOUR2PLOV       Reverse of above

INTENSITY       "Intensity scores" from data dictionary version 1.1: these were calibrated on the basis of the frequency of CAMEO subcategories in
                a sample of ICEWS data to produced aggregate values comparable to those of the ICEWS CAMEO "Goldstein" scores. These are NOT current
                some additional updates made in January-2023: see the PLOVER manual

Report bugs to: schrodt735@gmail.com

REVISION HISTORY:
09-Nov-2021:	Initial version
03-Mar-2022:  Added intensity scores from data dictionary version 1.1
"""

PLOVERLIST = ["AGREE", "CONSULT", "SUPPORT", "CONCEDE", "COOPERATE", "AID", "RETREAT", "REQUEST",
              "ACCUSE", "REJECT", "THREATEN", "PROTEST", "SANCTION", "MOBILIZE", "COERCE", "ASSAULT"]

CONTEXTLIST = ["asylum", "economic", "cyber", "disasters", "repression", "misinformation", "human_security", 
                "pro_democracy", "pro_autocracy", "political_institutions", "legislative", "intelligence", "inequality",  
                "terrorism", "environment", "corruption", "diplomatic", "religion_ethnicity", "legal", "military", 
                "health", "illegal_drugs", "lgbt", "migration", "election", "reparations", "peacekeeping", "human_rights", 
                "rights_freedoms", "gender", "crime", "technology", "natural_resource", "territory"] #  

MODEDICT = {"ACCUSE": ["disapprove","investigate","allege"],
            "ASSAULT": ["abduct","beat","torture","execute","sexual","assassinate","destroy","primitive","firearms","explosives",
                        "suicide-attack","heavy-weapons","crowd-control","cleansing","massacre","unconventional"],
            "COERCE": ["seize","restrict","ban","censor","curfew","martial-law","arrest","deport","withold","misinformation"],
            "CONSULT": ["visit","third-party","multilateral","phone"],
            "MOBILIZE": ["troops","weapons","police","militia"],
            "PROTEST": ["demo","riot","general","strike","hunger","boycott","obstruct"],
            "REJECT": ["assist","change","yield","meet"],
            "REQUEST": ["assist","change","yield","meet"],
            "RETREAT": ["withdraw","release","return","disarm","ceasefire","access","resign"],
            "SANCTION": ["convict","expel","withdraw","discontinue"],
            "THREATEN": ["restrict","ban","arrest","relations","expel","territory","violence"]
            }

PLOV2FOUR = {"AGREE": "AGRE", "CONSULT": "CONS", "SUPPORT": "SUPP", "CONCEDE": "CONC", "COOPERATE": "COOP", "AID": "AAID",  
             "RETREAT": "RETR", "REQUEST": "REQS", "ACCUSE": "ACCS", "REJECT": "REJT", "THREATEN": "THRT", "PROTEST": "PROT",  
             "SANCTION": "SANC", "MOBILIZE": "MOBL", "COERCE": "COER", "ASSAULT": "ASLT"}  # PLOVER 4-character category abbreviations

FOUR2PLOV = {"AGRE": "AGREE",  "CONS": "CONSULT",  "SUPP": "SUPPORT",  "CONC": "CONCEDE",  "COOP": "COOPERATE",  "AAID": "AID",   
             "RETR": "RETREAT",  "REQS": "REQUEST",  "ACCS": "ACCUSE",  "REJT": "REJECT",  "THRT": "THREATEN",  "PROT": "PROTEST",   
             "SANC": "SANCTION",  "MOBL": "MOBILIZE",  "COER": "COERCE",  "ASSAULT": "ASLT"}  # PLOVER 4-character reverse index
             
# NOTE: As of 11-Mar-2023, hese scores are NOT current with some additional updates made in January-2023: see the current PLOVER manual
INTENSITY = {
            "ASSAULT": -9.3,
            "COERCE": -7.2,
            "PROTEST": -6.6,
            "MOBILIZE": -5.3,
            "SANCTION": -5.2,
            "THREATEN": -5.1,
            "REQUEST": -5.0,
            "REJECT": -4.2,
            "ACCUSE": -2.0
            "CONSULT": +2.1,
            "AGREE": +4.2,
            "SUPPORT": +4.6,
            "CONCEDE": +5.0,
            "COOPERATE": +6.8,
            "AID": +7.4,
            "RETREAT": +7.6
            }