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News list
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Recordings of MeteoSchweiz text segments in DSGS
Christa Notter (HfH) visits the University of Surrey for recordings of MeteoSchweiz text segments in Swiss German Sign Language (DSGS)
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Paper SwissADT at NAACL 2025
SwissADT is an emerging system for the automatic translation of audio description between the three main Swiss languages and English.
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Report on IICT in SRF «Signes»
«Signes» is an SRF television program in sign language. The episode «KI, AI, digital Signers und Gebärden-Avatare» (AI, digital signers and sign language avatars) also presents the IICT flagship.
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Interview with Katja Tissi from HfH
In an interview with "Schau!", a newspaper by and for people with and without hearing impairments, Katja Tissi talks about the IICT flagship.
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MT Summit Geneva 2025
Prof Dr Sarah Ebling, Flagship PI, has been confirmed as the first keynote speaker at the MT Summit 2025, to be held in Geneva from 23 to 27 June.
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E-Accessibility Symposium 2024
Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling at the e-accessibility symposium which took place on 21. November 2024.
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SRF Podcast «Digitale Inklusion: Was bringt KI?»
Flagship PI Sarah Ebling interviewed on the topic of "Accessibility and AI"
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Inaugural Lecture Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling
Inaugural Lecture of our Flagship PI, 2 December 2024, 19:30-20:15 (new starting time!)
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Sign Language and Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Aspects
Event on 12 November 2024, organized by the chair of Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling, PI of our Flagship
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Symposium on «E-Accessibility» 2024
On 21 November 2024 the online symposium «E-Accessibility» will take place. The symposium is co-organized by implementation partners of our flagship.
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5th LiZZ Gespräch: Multimodality
Panel discussion on 24 October 2024 at the UZH City Campus
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IICT Flagship Accessibility Experts at AI+X SUMMIT 2024
Meet our IICT PI Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling at the UZH booth
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SwissNLP Award 2024 for sign language machine translation
Members of the IICT team receive this year’s SwissNLP Award for their work in sign language machine translation
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On the contribution of generative AI to web accessibility
Article by Prof Dr Sarah Ebling in the magazine Netzwoche
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Launch of Google Accessibility Discovery Center (ADC) Zurich
IICT Flagship PI Sarah Ebling will take part in the launch event on 16 May 2024
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IICT Consortium Meeting March 2024
The IICT consortium met at Technopark Winterthur to discuss recent progress and prepare for the upcoming review meeting with Innosuisse.
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Flagship Get Together 2024
Innosuisse invites Flagship Consortia to exchange insights
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Press Release of the FOCP
Press release of the Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) with reference to the IICT Flagship
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Symposium on “E-Accessibility” - talks online
On 16 November 2023, the online symposium on “E-Accessibility” took place. The talks with sign language interpreting are available onLiveAccess
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Newspaper article about IICT (in French)
On 7 November 2023, Le Nouvelliste published an article about Icare's research for subproject 1 (text simplification)
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Information Event – Learn from colleagues
An information event on 8 November 2023, organzied by the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) and the UZH Innovation Office.
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Talk at “Forum Digitale Kommunikation”
On 9 November 2023, the event "Forum Digitale Kommunikation" will take place in Berne, IICT-PI Sarah Ebling presents on one aspect of our flagship.
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Campus Oerlikon – Lecture Series Fall Semester 23
On 20 November 2023, Flagship PI Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling will give a short talk as part of the lecture series “Friend or Foe? Artificial Intelligence as a Challenge for Society” at Campus Oerlikon.
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SAGG Germanistiktag 2023
On 1 December 2023, Flagship PI Sarah Ebling will give a talk about “KI-basierte Kommunikation im Kontext von Barrierefreiheit” (AI-based communication in the context of accessibility) at the University of Basel.
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Our Flagship briefly explained
Short presentation by project partner SWISS TXT on the IICT Flagship.
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Topics, Challenges and Expected Results
Interview by SWISS TXT with project partners.
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IICT public information event
Public information event (in German) on our Flagship on Wednesday, 14 June 2023, 17:30-19:00.
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Language(s) and Spaces: Switzerland as a “Special Case”?
Language(s) and Spaces: Switzerland As a “Special Case”?
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Developing Sign Language Technologies for the Users: Insights from an NLP Perspective
Presentation on NLP challenges in sign language processing
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Digital Days Lecture
Lecture on the Use of AI for People with Disabilities by Dr. Sarah Ebling (in German)
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Conference “The Potential of Participatory Research”
Conference for improved inclusion of the deaf community in research projects (in German)
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Bernet Blog interview with Dr. Sarah Ebling
Online communication in 2022 – accessible for everyone?
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The University of Teacher Education in Special Needs (HfH) informs about IICT
IICT coverage by HfH
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"netzwoche" reports on IICT Flagship
Article in "netzwoche" highlighting the funding by Innosuisse
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