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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A Web Application for Geolocalized Signs in Synthesized Swiss German Sign Language. In: Proceedings of the International Conference of Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP), Linz, Austria, 13 July 2016 - 15 July 2016, Springer.
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Taking advantage of iLex: Linking an existing web lexicon of technical signs to an iLex corpus lexicon. In: 7th LREC Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages, Portorož, Slovenia, 28 May 2016, Processing of Sign Languages.
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Preventing too many cooks from spoiling the broth: Some questions to consider for collaboration between projects in iLex. In: 7th LREC Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages, Portorož, Slovenia, 28 May 2016, Processing of Sign Languages.
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Building a parallel corpus of German/Swiss German Sign Language train announcements. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 21(1):115-129.
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Automatic Translation from German to Synthesized Swiss German Sign Language. 2016, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.
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Building a Swiss German Sign Language avatar with JASigning and evaluating it among the Deaf community. Universal Access in the Information Society, 15(4):577-587.
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Helping Domain Experts Build Phrasal Speech Translation Systems. In: Proceedings of the Future and Emerging Trends in Language Technology (FETLT) Workshop, Seville, 19 November 2015 - 20 November 2015, s.n..
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Demographic and Experiential Factors Influencing Acceptance of Sign Language Animation by Deaf Users. In: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), Lisbon, Portugal, 26 October 2015 - 28 October 2015, ACM.
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Synthesizing the finger alphabet of Swiss German Sign Language and evaluating the comprehensibility of the resulting animations. In: Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), Dresden, 11 September 2015, SPLAT.
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Bridging the gap between sign language machine translation and sign language animation using sequence classification. In: Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), Dresden, 11 September 2015, SPLAT.
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Building an Application for Learning the Finger Alphabet of Swiss German Sign Language through Use of the Kinect. In: International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP), Paris, 9 July 2014 - 11 July 2014, Springer International Publishing.
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Digging for Names in the Mountains: Combined Person Name Recognition and Reference Resolution for German Alpine Texts. In: Vetulani, Z; Mariani, J. Human Language Technology Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics : 5th Language and Technology Conference, LTC 2011, Poznań, Poland, November 25--27, 2011 : revised selected papers. Switzerland: Springer, 189-200.
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Evaluating a Swiss German Sign Language Avatar among the Deaf Community. In: Third International Symposium on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology, Chicago, IL, USA, 18 October 2013 - 19 October 2013.
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Exploiting the full potential of JASigning to build an avatar signing train announcements. In: Third International Symposium on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology, Chicago, IL, USA, 18 October 2013 - 19 October 2013.
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Building a German/Simple German Parallel Corpus for Automatic Text Simplification. In: The Second Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations (PITR 2013), Sofia, Bulgaria, 8 August 2013.
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Semi-automatic annotation of semantic relations in a Swiss German sign language lexicon. In: 5th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Interactions between Corpus and Lexicon, LREC 2012, Istanbul, 21 May 2012 - 27 May 2012, 31-36.
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Digging for names in the mountains: Combined person name recognition and reference resolution for German alpine texts. In: 5th Language & Technology Conference, Poznan, Poland, 25 November 2011 - 27 November 2011.
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Combining semantic and syntactic generalization in example-based machine translation. In: EAMT 2011, Leuven, Belgium, 30 May 2011 - 31 May 2011, 209-216.
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Die Schweiz in der Krise: Korpuspragmatische Untersuchungen zur sprachlichen Konstruktion und Diffusion von Krisensemantiken. Aptum. Zeitschrift für Sprachkritik und Sprachkultur, 2(6):99-120.