CV
- 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
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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
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Publications
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SwissADT: An Audio Description Translation System for Swiss Languages. In: Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 3: Industry Track), Albuquerque, New Mexico, 29 April 2025 - 2 Mai 2025. Association for Computational Linguistics, 370-379.
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Development and validation of a fluency rating scale for Swiss German Sign Language. Frontiers in Education, 9:1466936.
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SignCLIP: Connecting Text and Sign Language by Contrastive Learning. In: Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Miami, 12 November 2024 - 16 November 2024. Association for Computational Linguistics, 9171-9193.
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Automated Sign Language Vocabulary Assessment: Comparing Human and Machine Ratings and Studying Learner Perceptions. Language Assessment Quarterly, 21(3):245-265.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Automatic Annotation Elaboration as Feedback to Sign Language Learners. In: The 18th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVIII), St. Julian's, Malta, 22 March 2024.
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Investigating Breathing Patterns in Sign Language Storytelling: An Exploratory Study. 2024, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.
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Enabling text comprehensibility assessment for people with intellectual disabilities using a mobile application. Frontiers in Communication, 8:1175625.
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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.
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Development of a Swiss German Language Sample Analysis Tool - Legal and Ethical Aspects of Data Collection. 2023, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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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.
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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.
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Target-Level Sentence Simplification as Controlled Paraphrasing. In: Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022), Abu Dhabi, 8 December 2022.
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Computer-Assisted Diagnostics of Developmental Language Disorder in German-Speaking Children. 2022, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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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.
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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.