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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Automatic Text Simplification for German. Frontiers in Communication, 7:706718.
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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.
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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.
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Toward automatic diagnosis of medical conditions involving speech impairment. 2021, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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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.
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Real-Time Sign Language Detection using Human Pose Estimation. ArXiv.org 04637, Cornell University.
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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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A Corpus for Automatic Readability Assessment and Text Simplification of German. In: 12th Edition of its Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marseille, 11 May 2020 - 16 May 2020, European Language Resources Associatio.
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Benchmarking Data-driven Automatic Text Simplification for German. In: Gala, Nuria; Wilkens, Rodrigo. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with REAding DIfficulties (READI). Marseille: European Language Resources Association, 41-48.
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An Empirical Analysis of Linguistic, Typographic, and Structural Features in Simplified German Texts. In: Sixth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2019), Bari, 13 November 2019 - 15 November 2019, CLiC-it.
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Using Open-Source Software for Sign Language Learning and Assessment. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning, 14(19):188-196.
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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(1):20-40.
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Automatic Cluster Analysis of Texts in Simplified German. 2019, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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Sprachtechnologie für Menschen mit Behinderungen. In: Sonderpädagogik in der digitalisierten Lernwelt. Beiträge der nationalen Tagung Netzwerk Forschung Sonderpädagogik, Zurich, 4 September 2018. Edition SZH/CSPS, 29-46.
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SMILE Swiss German Sign Language Dataset. In: Calzolari, Nicoletta; Choukri, Khalid; Cieri, Christopher; Declerck, Thierry; Goggi, Sara; Hasida, Koiti; Isahara, Hitoshi; Maegaard, Bente; Mariani, Joseph; Mazo, Hélène; Moreno, Asuncion; Odijk, Jan; Piperidis, Stelios; Tokunaga, Takenobu. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018). Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 4221-4229.
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Regression Analysis of Demographic and Technology-Experience Factors Influencing Acceptance of Sign Language Animation. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS), 10(1):Article No.: 3.
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Evaluation of Animated Swiss German Sign Language Fingerspelling Sequences and Signs. In: Antona, M; Stephanidis, C. Universal Access in Human–Computer Interaction. Vancouver: Springer, 3-13.
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Rule-based Automatic Text Simplification for German. In: 13th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2016), Bochum, Germany, 19 September 2016 - 21 September 2016, s.n..
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An Open Web Platform for Rule-Based Speech-to-Sign Translation. In: Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Berlin, Germany, 8 August 2016 - 10 August 2016, Association for Computational Linguistic.