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
See course catalogue.
Spring semester courses:
- Visual Language Processing
- Digital Accessibility
- Seminar (varying topics)
Fall semester courses:
- Artificial Intelligence for Language Accessibility
- Introduction to Language Technology (second half)
- Programming in Computational Linguistics 1 (first half)
- Scientific Writing and Ethical Conduct
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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Development of a Swiss German Language Sample Analysis Tool - Legal and Ethical Aspects of Data Collection (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-265983
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Analyzing sentence alignment for automatic simplification of German texts In S. Deilen, S. Hansen-Schirra, S. Hernández Garrido, M. Christiane, & A. Tardel (Eds.), Emerging Fields in Easy Language and Accessible Communication Research (No. 14; pp. 339–369). Frank & Timme. https://doi.org/10.57088/978-3-7329-9026-9_13
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Multimodal Recognition of Valence, Arousal and Dominance via Late-Fusion of Text, Audio and Facial Expressions 571–576. https://doi.org/10.14428/esann/2023.ES2023-128
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Target-Level Sentence Simplification as Controlled Paraphrasing Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022), Abu Dhabi.
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Computer-Assisted Diagnostics of Developmental Language Disorder in German-Speaking Children (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-265982
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A Multilingual Simplified Language News Corpus 25–30. https://aclanthology.org/2022.readi-1.4
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Ensembling and Score-Based Filtering in Sentence Alignment for Automatic Simplification of German Texts Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 137–149. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05028-2_8
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Automatic Text Simplification for German Frontiers in Communication, 7, 706718. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2022.706718
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A New Dataset and Efficient Baselines for Document-level Text Simplification in German 152–161. https://aclanthology.org/2021.newsum-1.16
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Exploring German Multi-Level Text Simplification 1339–1349. https://aclanthology.org/2021.ranlp-1.150/
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Toward automatic diagnosis of medical conditions involving speech impairment (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-265979
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Evaluating the Immediate Applicability of Pose Estimation for Sign Language Recognition (No. 10166v1). Article 10166v1. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, Nashville. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPRW53098.2021.00382
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Real-Time Sign Language Detection using Human Pose Estimation (No. 04637; ArXiv.Org). https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.04637.pdf
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Harmonization Sometimes Harms (S. Ebling, D. Tuggener, M. Hürlimann, & M. Volk, Eds.). swisstext-and-konvens-2020. http://swisstext-and-konvens-2020.org
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Proceedings of the 5th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) & 16th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS) : Vol. Vol-2624. CEUR-ws. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2624/
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A Corpus for Automatic Readability Assessment and Text Simplification of German 12th Edition of its Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marseille. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.404.pdf
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Benchmarking Data-driven Automatic Text Simplification for German In N. Gala & R. Wilkens (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with REAding DIfficulties (READI) (pp. 41–48). European Language Resources Association. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.readi-1.7
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An Empirical Analysis of Linguistic, Typographic, and Structural Features in Simplified German Texts Sixth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2019), Bari. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2481/paper4.pdf
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Using Open-Source Software for Sign Language Learning and Assessment International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning, 14, 188–196. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v14i19.11123
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Sign language learning and assessment in German Switzerland: Exploring the potential of vocabulary size tests for Swiss German Sign Language Language Education & Assessment, 2, 20–40. https://doi.org/10.29140/lea.v2n1.85