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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Evaluating a Swiss German Sign Language Avatar among the Deaf Community Third International Symposium on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology, Chicago. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-015-0408-1
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Exploiting the full potential of JASigning to build an avatar signing train announcements Third International Symposium on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology, Chicago.
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Building a German/Simple German Parallel Corpus for Automatic Text Simplification The Second Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations (PITR 2013), Sofia.
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Semi-automatic annotation of semantic relations in a Swiss German sign language lexicon Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Interactions between Corpus and Lexicon, LREC 2012, 31–36. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/workshops/24.Proceedings_SignLanguage.pdf
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Digging for names in the mountains: Combined person name recognition and reference resolution for German alpine texts 5th Language & Technology Conference, Poznan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08958-4_16
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Combining semantic and syntactic generalization in example-based machine translation (M. L. Forcada, H. Depraetere, & V. Vandeghinste, Eds.; pp. 209–216). http://www.ccl.kuleuven.be/EAMT2011/proceedings/pdf/eamt2011proceedings.pdf
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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, 99–120. http://www.hempen-verlag.de/zeitschriften/aptum/printausgaben/aptum-heft-2-2010.html
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“So etwas wie eine Botschaft” : Korpuslinguistische Analysen der Bundestagswahl 2009. Sprachreport, 4, 2–10. http://ids-pub.bsz-bw.de/files/2301/Bubenhofer_Dussa_Ebling_Klimke_Rothenh%C3%A4usler_Scharloth_Tamekue_Vola_Forschergruppe_semtracks-So_etwas_wie_eine_Botschaft-2009.pdf