Sarah Ebling

Sarah Ebling, Prof. Dr.

Full Professor of Language‚ Technology and Accessibility

Phone: +41 44 635 67 21
Room number: AND-2-22

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Since November 2023: Full professor of Language, Technology and Accessibility, University of Zurich
December 2022 to January 2024: Professor of Accessibility Studies, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
August 2019 to October 2023: Senior academic associate, Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich
February to July 2020: Acting professorship (Prof. Dr. Martin Volk), Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich
March to July 2019: Senior researcher, University of Teacher Education in Special Needs (Interkantonale Hochschule für Heilpädagogik Zürich, HfH)
January to September 2019: Research fellow, Digital Society Initiative (DSI), University of Zurich
2016 to 2018: Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) Higher Education, University of Zurich (replaces "Teaching Skills")
March 2016 to February 2019: Postdoctoral researcher, University of Teacher Education in Special Needs (Interkantonale Hochschule für Heilpädagogik Zürich, HfH)
February 2016 to July 2019: Lecturer, Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich
2012 to 2014: “Teaching Skills” certificate University of Zurich
November 2011 to February 2016: PhD student, Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich
March to August 2015: Visiting researcher, Linguistic and Assistive Technologies Laboratory (LATLab)/Center for Accessibility and Inclusion Research (CAIR), Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), USA
February 2015: Visiting researcher, Human-Computer Interaction and Computer Graphics Division, DePaul University Chicago, USA
April to December 2011: Visiting researcher, School of Computing, Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland
Licentiate (Master of Arts) in German Linguistics and Literature, Computational Linguistics, English Linguistics, University of Zurich and University of Heidelberg

Teaching

Spring 2025	Digital Accessibility (lecture)
Spring 2025	Einführung in die Computerlinguistik 2 (lecture)
Spring 2025	Augmentative and Alternative Communication (seminar)
Fall 2024	Artificial Intelligence for Language Accessibility (lecture)
Spring 2024	Digital Accessibility (lecture)
Spring 2024	Assistive Technologies and Ethics (seminar)
Fall 2023	Artificial Intelligence for Language Accessibility (lecture)
Spring 2022	Language Technology for Accessibility (Sprachtechnologie als Beitrag zur Barrierefreiheit) (lecture)
Fall 2021	Language Technology for Special Education (seminar)
Spring 2021	Language Technology for Accessibility (Sprachtechnologie als Beitrag zur Barrierefreiheit) (lecture)
Fall 2020	Dialog Systems (lecture)
Spring 2020	Language Technology for Accessibility (Sprachtechnologie als Beitrag zur Barrierefreiheit) (lecture)
Spring 2020	Language Technology in the Context of Artificial Intelligence (seminar)
Spring 2020	Colloquium Computational Linguistics
Fall 2019	Automatic Text Simplification (Automatische Textvereinfachung) (seminar)
Fall 2018	Language Technology for Accessibility (Sprachtechnologie als Beitrag zur Barrierefreiheit) (lecture)
Fall 2016	Language Technology for Accessibility (Sprachtechnologie als Beitrag zur Barrierefreiheit) (lecture)
Fall 2016	Introduction to Corpus Linguistics (Einführung in die Werkzeuge der Korpuslinguistik) (lecture)
Fall 2015	Language Technology for Accessibility (Sprachtechnologie als Beitrag zur Barrierefreiheit) (lecture)
Fall 2014	Language Technology for Accessibility (Sprachtechnologie als Beitrag zur Barrierefreiheit) (lecture)
Fall 2014	Introduction to Corpus Linguistics (Einführung in die Werkzeuge der Korpuslinguistik) (lecture)
Fall 2013	Language Technology for Accessibility (Sprachtechnologie als Beitrag zur Barrierefreiheit) (lecture)
Spring 2013	Introduction to Corpus Linguistics (Einführung in die Werkzeuge der Korpuslinguistik) (lecture)
Fall 2012	Language Technology for Accessibility (Sprachtechnologie als Beitrag zur Barrierefreiheit) (lecture)
Fall 2012	Corpus Linguistics (block seminar)
Spring 2012	Introduction to Corpus Linguistics (Einführung in die Werkzeuge der Korpuslinguistik) (lecture)

Media and Outreach

SRF Podcast on digital inclusion

"KIs erste Gebärde" in der Zürcher Studierendenzeitung (1/24)

Digital Innovation Hub: Sarah Ebling

Interview HfH (July 27, 2023): “Kann DeepL schon Gebärdensprache – was gibt's schon, was wird's noch geben?” (in German)

TEDxZurich talk (March 17, 2023): “Developing assistive technologies through co-creation”

Panel discussion (March 2023): “ChatGPT & Co. – eine Chance für Forschung und Lehre?”

Sign Language Recognition, Translation & Production (SLRTP '22) keynote presentation: “Developing Sign Language Technologies for the Users: Insights from a NLP Perspective”

“Handbook of Easy Languages in Europe': Gelungene Buchvernissage” (HfH News, November 2021)

“Aus unseren Reihen: Sarah Ebling” (UZH Alumni, July/November 2021 (PDF, 184 KB))

“Die nächste Generation: Was junge Forschende antreibt” (UZH Magazine, March 2021)

Publications

ZORA Publication List

Publications

Holzknecht, Franz; Tornay, Sandrine; Battisti, Alessia; Batty, Aaron Olaf; Tissi, Katja; Haug, Tobias; Ebling, Sarah (2024). Automated Sign Language Vocabulary Assessment: Comparing Human and Machine Ratings and Studying Learner Perceptions. Language Assessment Quarterly, 21(3):245-265.
Battisti, Alessia; van den Bold, Emma; Göhring, Anne; Holzknecht, Franz; Ebling, Sarah (2024). Person Identification from Pose Estimates in Sign Language. In: 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Evaluation of Sign Language Resources, Turin, Italy, 25 May 2024.
Battisti, Alessia; Tissi, Katja; Sidler-Miserez, Sandra; Ebling, Sarah (2024). Advancing Annotation for Continuous Data in Swiss German Sign Language. In: 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Evaluation of Sign Language Resources, Turin, Italy, 25 May 2024.
Säuberli, Andreas; Holzknecht, Franz; Haller, Patrick; Deilen, Silvana; Schiffl, Laura; Hansen-Schirra, Silvia; Ebling, Sarah (2024). Digital Comprehensibility Assessment of Simplified Texts among Persons with Intellectual Disabilities. In: CHI '24: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu HI USA, 11 May 2024 - 16 May 2024. Association for Computing Machinery, 527.
Jiang, Zifan; Göhring, Anne; Moryossef, Amit; Sennrich, Rico; Ebling, Sarah (2024). SwissSLi: The Multi-parallel Sign Language Corpus for Switzerland. In: Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), Turin, 20 May 2024 - 25 May 2024. ELRA and ICCL, 15448-15456.
Carrer, Luisa; Säuberli, Andreas; Kappus, Martin; Ebling, Sarah (2024). Towards Holistic Human Evaluation of Automatic Text Simplification. In: Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems (HumEval) @ LREC-COLING 2024, Turin, Italy, 21 May 2024. ELRA and ICCL, 71-80.
Battisti, Alessia; Ebling, Sarah (2024). Automatic Annotation Elaboration as Feedback to Sign Language Learners. In: The 18th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVIII), St. Julian's, Malta, 22 March 2024.
Säuberli, Andreas; Hansen-Schirra, Silvia; Holzknecht, Franz; Gutermuth, Silke; Deilen, Silvana; Schiffl, Laura; Ebling, Sarah (2023). Enabling text comprehensibility assessment for people with intellectual disabilities using a mobile application. Frontiers in Communication, 8:1175625.
Kew, Tannon; Kostrzewa, Marek; Ebling, Sarah (2023). 20 Minuten: A Multi-task News Summarisation Dataset for German. In: SwissText 2023: 8th Swiss Text Analytics Conference, Neuchâtel, 12 Juni 2023 - 14 Juni 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics, 1-13.
Rios, Annette; Reichel, Uwe; Bhuvaneshwara, Chirag; Filntisis, Panagiotis; Maragos, Petros; Burkhardt, Felix; Eyben, Florian; Schuller, Björn; Nunnari, Fabrizio; Ebling, Sarah (2023). Multimodal Recognition of Valence, Arousal and Dominance via Late-Fusion of Text, Audio and Facial Expressions. In: European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning, Bruges, Belgium, 4 October 2023 - 6 October 2023. i6doc.com, 571-576.
Spring, Nicolas; Kostrzewa, Marek; Fröhlich, David; Rios, Annette; Pfütze, Dominik; Battisti, Alessia; Ebling, Sarah (2023). Analyzing sentence alignment for automatic simplification of German texts. In: Deilen, Silvana; Hansen-Schirra, Silvia; Hernández Garrido, Sergio; Christiane, Maaß; Tardel, Anke. Emerging Fields in Easy Language and Accessible Communication Research. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 339-369.
Kew, Tannon; Ebling, Sarah (2022). Target-Level Sentence Simplification as Controlled Paraphrasing. In: Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022), Abu Dhabi, 8 December 2022.
Hauser, Renate; Vamvas, Jannis; Ebling, Sarah; Volk, Martin (2022). A Multilingual Simplified Language News Corpus. In: 2nd Workshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with REAding DIfficulties (READI) within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marseille, France, 24 June 2022. European Language Resources Association, 25-30.
Spring, Nicolas; Kostrzewa, Marek; Rios, Annette; Ebling, Sarah (2022). Ensembling and Score-Based Filtering in Sentence Alignment for Automatic Simplification of German Texts. In: International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2022). Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Novel Design Approaches and Technologies., Virtual, 26 June 2022 - 1 July 2022. Springer, 137-149.
Ebling, Sarah; Battisti, Alessia; Kostrzewa, Marek; Pfütze, Dominik; Rios, Annette; Säuberli, Andreas; Spring, Nicolas (2022). Automatic Text Simplification for German. Frontiers in Communication, 7:706718.
Rios, Annette; Spring, Nicolas; Kew, Tannon; Kostrzewa, Marek; Säuberli, Andreas; Müller, Mathias; Ebling, Sarah (2021). A New Dataset and Efficient Baselines for Document-level Text Simplification in German. In: Third Workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization, Online and in Dominican Republic, 10 November 2021. ACL Anthology, 152-161.
Spring, Nicolas; Rios, Annette; Ebling, Sarah (2021). Exploring German Multi-Level Text Simplification. In: International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021), online, 1 September 2021 - 3 September 2021. ACL Anthology, 1339-1349.
Moryossef, Amit; Tsochantaridis, Ioannis; Dinn, Joe; Camgöz, Necati Cihan; Bowden, Richard; Jiang, Tao; Rios, Annette; Müller, Mathias; Ebling, Sarah (2021). Evaluating the Immediate Applicability of Pose Estimation for Sign Language Recognition. In: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, Nashville, TN, USA, 20 June 2021 - 25 June 2021.
Moryossef, Amit; Tsochantaridis, Ioannis; Aharoni, Roee; Ebling, Sarah; Narayanan, Srini (2020). Real-Time Sign Language Detection using Human Pose Estimation. ArXiv.org 04637, Cornell University.
Klenner, Manfred; Göhring, Anne; Amsler, Michael (2020). Harmonization Sometimes Harms. In: Proceedings of the 5th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) & 16th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS), Winterthur, 23 June 2020 - 25 June 2020, swisstext-and-konvens-2020.

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