Kostiantyn Kucher
Research assistantKostiantyn Kucher was born in Odessa, Ukraine. He received the Master's degree with honours in Computer Science from Odessa National Polytechnic University in 2012. During 2013–2018, Kostiantyn was a PhD student with a specialization in Information Visualization and Visual Analytics under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Andreas Kerren with the ISOVIS group at the Department of Computer Science and Media Technology at Linnaeus University. Since December 2018, Kostiantyn has been a research assistant with the ISOVIS group, and he defended his PhD dissertation entitled "Sentiment and Stance Visualization of Textual Data for Social Media" in April 2019.
Research
The main research interests and projects of Kostiantyn include the following:
- text visualization and visual text analytics (see Text Visualization Browser at http://textvis.lnu.se);
- sentiment and stance visualization of text data (see Sentiment Visualization Browser at http://sentimentvis.lnu.se and the website of the StaViCTA project at http://cs.lnu.se/stavicta);
- temporal data visualization (especially for temporal text data);
- further integration of visual analytics approaches with computational models (especially for natural language processing and text mining tasks); and
- domain applications of information visualization and visual analytics (see BioVis Explorer at http://biovis.lnu.se, for instance).
Publications
Article in journal (Refereed)
- Kucher, K., Paradis, C., Kerren, A. (2018). The State of the Art in Sentiment Visualization. Computer graphics forum (Print). 37. 71-96.
- Kerren, A., Kucher, K., Li, Y., Schreiber, F. (2017). BioVis Explorer : A visual guide for biological data visualization techniques. PLoS ONE. 12.
- Simaki, V., Paradis, C., Skeppstedt, M., Sahlgren, M., Kucher, K., et al. (2017). Annotating speaker stance in discourse : the Brexit Blog Corpus. Corpus linguistics and linguistic theory.
- Kucher, K., Paradis, C., Sahlgren, M., Kerren, A. (2017). Active Learning and Visual Analytics for Stance Classification with ALVA. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS). 7.
- Kucher, K., Schamp-Bjerede, T., Kerren, A., Paradis, C., Sahlgren, M. (2016). Visual Analysis of Online Social Media to Open Up the Investigation of Stance Phenomena. Information Visualization. 15. 93-116.
Conference paper (Refereed)
- Kucher, K., Kerren, A. (2019). Text Visualization Revisited : The State of the Field in 2019. EuroVis 2019 - Posters.
- Kucher, K., Paradis, C., Kerren, A. (2018). Visual Analysis of Sentiment and Stance in Social Media Texts. EuroVis 2018 - Posters. 49-51.
- Kucher, K., Paradis, C., Kerren, A. (2018). DoSVis : Document Stance Visualization. Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP '18). 168-175.
- Kucher, K., Skeppstedt, M., Kerren, A. (2018). Application of Interactive Computer-Assisted Argument Extraction to Opinionated Social Media Texts. Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI '18). 102-103.
- Kucher, K., Martins, R.M., Kerren, A. (2018). Analysis of VINCI 2009–2017 Proceedings. Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI '18), 13-15 August 2018, Växjö, Sweden. 97-101.
- Skeppstedt, M., Kucher, K., Stede, M., Kerren, A. (2018). Topics2Themes : Computer-Assisted Argument Extraction by Visual Analysis of Important Topics. Proceedings of the LREC 2018 Workshop “The 3rd Workshop on Visualization as Added Value in the Development, Use and Evaluation of Language Resources (VisLR III)”. 9-16.
- Kerren, A., Kucher, K., Li, Y., Schreiber, F. (2017). MDS-based Visual Survey of Biological Data Visualization Techniques. EuroVis 2017 - Posters. 85-87.
- Skeppstedt, M., Kucher, K., Paradis, C., Kerren, A. (2017). Language Processing Components of the StaViCTA Project. Proceedings of the Workshop on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017 (LACompLing 2017). 137-138.
- Martins, R.M., Simaki, V., Kucher, K., Paradis, C., Kerren, A. (2017). StanceXplore : Visualization for the Interactive Exploration of Stance in Social Media. .
- Kucher, K., Cernea, D., Kerren, A. (2016). Visualizing Excitement of Individuals and Groups. Proceedings of the ACM IUI 2016 Workshop on Emotion and Visualization (EmoVis '16). 15-22.
- Kucher, K., Kerren, A., Paradis, C., Sahlgren, M. (2016). Methodology and Applications of Visual Stance Analysis : An Interactive Demo. International Symposium on Digital Humanities, Växjö 7-8 November 2016 : Book of Abstracts. 56-57.
- Kucher, K., Kerren, A., Paradis, C., Sahlgren, M. (2016). Visual Analysis of Text Annotations for Stance Classification with ALVA. EuroVis Posters 2016. 49-51.
- Kucher, K., Kerren, A. (2015). Text Visualization Techniques : Taxonomy, Visual Survey, and Community Insights. Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis '15),. 117-121.
- Schamp-Bjerede, T., Paradis, C., Kucher, K., Kerren, A., Sahlgren, M. (2015). New Perspectives on Gathering, Vetting and Employing Big Data from Online Social Media : An Interdisciplinary Approach. Abstracts Booklet, ICAME 36 : Words, Words, Words – Corpora and Lexis. 153-155.
- Kucher, K., Kerren, A., Paradis, C., Sahlgren, M. (2014). Visual Analysis of Stance Markers in Online Social Media. Poster Abstracts of IEEE VIS 2014.
- Kucher, K., Kerren, A. (2014). Text Visualization Browser : A Visual Survey of Text Visualization Techniques. Poster Abstracts of IEEE VIS 2014.
- Schamp-Bjerede, T., Paradis, C., Kucher, K., Kerren, A., Sahlgren, M. (2014). The Signifier, Signified and Stance : Happy/Sad Emoticons as Emotionizers. Book of Abstracts, IACS 2014. 219-219.
- Schamp-Bjerede, T., Paradis, C., Kucher, K., Kerren, A., Sahlgren, M. (2014). Turning Face : Emoticons as Reinforcers/Attenuators. .
- Schamp-Bjerede, T., Paradis, C., Kerren, A., Sahlgren, M., Kucher, K., et al. (2014). Hedges and Tweets : Certainty and Uncertainty in Epistemic Markers in Microblog Feeds. Book of abstracts : 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea 11–14 September 2014, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. 199-199.
- Kucher, K., Weyns, D. (2013). A Self-Adaptive Software System to Support Elderly Care. Proceedings of Modern Information Technology, MIT, 2013.
Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
- Kucher, K. (2019). Sentiment and Stance Visualization of Textual Data for Social Media. Doctoral Thesis. Växjö, Sweden, Linnaeus University Press. 264.