Curriculum vitae
- Since August 2019: Senior researcher and lecturer, 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
Research
Head of the "Language technology for accessibility" group (NLP for persons with disabilities and special educational needs)
Ongoing projects:
- IICT: Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies (Innosuisse Flagship, 2022-2026)
- EASIER: Intelligent Automatic Sign Language Translation (EU H2020 ICT-57, 2021-2023)
- SMILE-II: Scalable Multimodal Sign Language Technology for Sign Language Learning and Assessment II (SNSF Sinergia, 2021-2024)
- capito automatisiert: Automatic text simplification for German (Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG, 2020-2021)
- Towards a Dialogue-based Intelligent Tutoring System for Medical Education (Teaching Fund UZH, 2020-2021)
- ReAdvisor: Neural Response Generation and Sentiment Analysis in the Context of Restaurant and Hotel Reviews (Swiss Innovation Agency (Innosuisse), 2020-2021)
Completed projects:
- SMILE-I: Scalable Multimodal Sign Language Technology for Sign Language Learning and Assessment I, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF Sinergia, 2016-2019)
- Machine translation into sign language (2011-2016)
- "Machine Translation and Animation Assessment for Swiss German Sign Language" (SNSF, 2015)
- "Gaze and Productive Signing in a Corpus of Interactions of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Signers of Swiss German Sign Language (DSGS)" (Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF)
Publications
Teaching
Spring 2022 | Language Technology for Accessibility (Sprachtechnologie als Beitrag zur Barrierefreiheit) (lecture) |
Fall |
Language Technology for Special Education (seminar) |
Spring 2021 | Language Technology for Accessibility (Sprachtechnologie als Beitrag zur Barrierefreiheit) (lecture) |
Fall 2020 |
Dialog Systems (lecture) |
Spring 2020 | Language Technology for Accessibility (Sprachtechnologie als Beitrag zur Barrierefreiheit) (lecture) |
Spring 2020 | Language Technology in the Context of Artificial Intelligence (seminar) |
Spring 2020 | Colloquium Computational Linguistics |
Fall 2019 | Automatic Text Simplification (Automatische Textvereinfachung) (seminar) |
Fall 2018 | Language Technology for Accessibility (Sprachtechnologie als Beitrag zur Barrierefreiheit) (lecture) |
Fall 2016 | Language Technology for Accessibility (Sprachtechnologie als Beitrag zur Barrierefreiheit) (lecture) |
Fall 2016 | Introduction to Corpus Linguistics (Einführung in die Werkzeuge der Korpuslinguistik) (lecture) |
Fall 2015 | Language Technology for Accessibility (Sprachtechnologie als Beitrag zur Barrierefreiheit) (lecture) |
Fall 2014 | Language Technology for Accessibility (Sprachtechnologie als Beitrag zur Barrierefreiheit) (lecture) |
Fall 2014 | Introduction to Corpus Linguistics (Einführung in die Werkzeuge der Korpuslinguistik) (lecture) |
Fall 2013 | Language Technology for Accessibility (Sprachtechnologie als Beitrag zur Barrierefreiheit) (lecture) |
Spring 2013 | Introduction to Corpus Linguistics (Einführung in die Werkzeuge der Korpuslinguistik) (lecture) |
Fall 2012 | Language Technology for Accessibility (Sprachtechnologie als Beitrag zur Barrierefreiheit) (lecture) |
Fall 2012 | Corpus Linguistics (block seminar) |
Spring 2012 | Introduction to Corpus Linguistics (Einführung in die Werkzeuge der Korpuslinguistik) (lecture) |
Other activities
Organizing committee of the conference "SwissText + KONVENS 2020" (June 2020)
Organizing committee of the event "e-Accessibility meets Technology", ETH Zurich (February 2016)
Organizing committee of the conference "From Hand to Mouth: A dialogue between spoken and signed language research (September 2013)
Media
"'Handbook of Easy Languages in Europe': Gelungene Buchvernissage" (HfH News, November 2021)
"Aus unseren Reihen: Sarah Ebling" (UZH Alumni, July/November 2021; print, online)
"Die nächste Generation: Was junge Forschende antreibt" (UZH Magazine, March 2021)