Sarah Ebling

Sarah Ebling, Prof. Dr.

Principal Investigator

Phone: +41 44 635 67 21
Room number: AND-2-22

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Webpage of the “Language, Technology and Accessibility” chair

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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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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Souayed, B., Ebling, S., & Gao, Y. (2025). Template-Based Text-to-Image Alignment for Language Accessibility A Study on Visualizing Text Simplifications 1–18. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.tsar-1.1
Chapariniya, M., Vukovic, T., Ebling, S., & Dellwo, V. (2025). Beyond Appearance: Transformer-based Person Identification from Conversational Dynamics 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1109/iccke68588.2025.11273850
Ranjbar, H., Arter, L., Setz, L., Battisti, A., & Ebling, S. (2025, September 17). Towards an AI-based Sign Language Video Editing Interface SLTAT 2025: 9th Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technologies, Berlin, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1145/3742886.3756746
Angela Ineichen. (2025). Spoken and Sign Language Writing Systems: A Comprehensive Typology (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-281060
Belkiss, S. (2025). Template-Based Text-to-Image Alignment for Language Accessibility: A Study on Visualizing Simplified Text (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-281057
Fischer, L., Gao, Y., Lintner, A., Rios, A., & Ebling, S. (2025). SwissADT: An Audio Description Translation System for Swiss Languages 370–379. https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-industry.31/
Fischer, L., Gao, Y., Lintner, A., Rios, A., & Ebling, S. (2025). SwissADT: An Audio Description Translation System for Swiss Languages 370–379. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-industry.31
Gao, Y., Fischer, L., Lintner, A., & Ebling, S. (2025). Audio Description Generation in the Era of LLMs and VLMs: A Review of Transferable Generative AI Technologies 471–490. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.findings-naacl.29
Haug, T., de Jong, N. H., Holzknecht, F., Tissi, K., Sidler-Miserez, S., Battisti, A., Perrollaz, R., Ebling, S., Reinhard, S., & Caminada, S. (2024). Development and validation of a fluency rating scale for Swiss German Sign Language Frontiers in Education, 9, 1466936. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2024.1466936
Jiang, Z., Sant Muniesa, G., Moryossef, A., Müller, M., Sennrich, R., & Ebling, S. (2024). SignCLIP: Connecting Text and Sign Language by Contrastive Learning 9171–9193. https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.518
Holzknecht, F., Tornay, S., Battisti, A., Batty, A. O., Tissi, K., Haug, T., & Ebling, S. (2024). Automated Sign Language Vocabulary Assessment: Comparing Human and Machine Ratings and Studying Learner Perceptions Language Assessment Quarterly, 21, 245–265. https://doi.org/10.1080/15434303.2024.2364877
Battisti, A., van den Bold, E., Göhring, A., Holzknecht, F., & Ebling, S. (2024, May 25). Person Identification from Pose Estimates in Sign Language 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Evaluation of Sign Language Resources, Turin.
Battisti, A., Tissi, K., Sidler-Miserez, S., & Ebling, S. (2024, May 25). Advancing Annotation for Continuous Data in Swiss German Sign Language 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Evaluation of Sign Language Resources, Turin.
Säuberli, A., Holzknecht, F., Haller, P., Deilen, S., Schiffl, L., Hansen-Schirra, S., & Ebling, S. (2024). Digital Comprehensibility Assessment of Simplified Texts among Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (CHI ’24). 527. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642570
Jiang, Z., Göhring, A., Moryossef, A., Sennrich, R., & Ebling, S. (2024). SwissSLi: The Multi-parallel Sign Language Corpus for Switzerland 15448–15456. https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1342
Carrer, L., Säuberli, A., Kappus, M., & Ebling, S. (2024). Towards Holistic Human Evaluation of Automatic Text Simplification 71–80. https://aclanthology.org/2024.humeval-1.7
Battisti, A., & Ebling, S. (2024). Automatic Annotation Elaboration as Feedback to Sign Language Learners (S. Henning & M. Stede, Eds.). https://aclanthology.org/2024.law-1.5/
Ming, L. (2024). Investigating Breathing Patterns in Sign Language Storytelling: An Exploratory Study (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-270733
Säuberli, A., Hansen-Schirra, S., Holzknecht, F., Gutermuth, S., Deilen, S., Schiffl, L., & Ebling, S. (2023). Enabling text comprehensibility assessment for people with intellectual disabilities using a mobile application Frontiers in Communication, 8, 1175625. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1175625
Kew, T., Kostrzewa, M., & Ebling, S. (2023). 20 Minuten: A Multi-task News Summarisation Dataset for German Proceedings of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference, 1–13. https://aclanthology.org/2023.swisstext-1.1

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