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2016-04-17: A Summary of "What Triggers Human Remembering of Events? A Large-Scale Analysis of Catalysts for Collective Memory in Wikipedia"

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Authors Nattiya Kanhabua , Ngoc Tu Nguyen , and Claudia NiederĂ©e from L3S published the following study at JCDL 2014 . In the process of reviewing possible topics for my PhD research,  I share my analysis of their findings. The full citation and presentation for the paper is below. Kanhabua, N ., Nguyen, T. N. , & Niederee, C. (2014, September). What triggers human remembering of events?: a large-scale analysis of catalysts for collective memory in Wikipedia . In Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (pp. 341-350). IEEE Press. What Triggers Human Remembering of Events? A Large-Scale Analysis of Catalysts for Collective Memory in Wikipedia from Nattiya Kanhabua The focus of the article centers around identifying patterns that trigger recollection of events in collective memory . Since the number of categorical events is limitless, the authors focus on natural and man-made disasters , accidents, and terrorism . Their anal...