Sarah Ebling

Sarah Ebling, Dr.

Senior academic associate

Tel.: +41 44 635 67 21
Raumbezeichnung: AND-2-22

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I am the head of the "Language technology for accessibility" group.

I also hold a professorship in Accessibility Studies at Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

CV

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

Full CV (August 2023) (PDF, 121 KB)

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Publications

ZORA Publication List

Publications

Säuberli, Andreas; Hansen-Schirra, Silvia; Holzknecht, Franz; Gutermuth, Silke; Deilen, Silvana; Schiffl, Laura; Ebling, Sarah (2023). Enabling text comprehensibility assessment for people with intellectual disabilities using a mobile application. Frontiers in Communication, 8:1175625.
Kew, Tannon; Kostrzewa, Marek; Ebling, Sarah (2023). 20 Minuten: A Multi-task News Summarisation Dataset for German. In: SwissText 2023: 8th Swiss Text Analytics Conference, Neuchâtel, 12 June 2023 - 14 June 2023.
Spring, Nicolas; Kostrzewa, Marek; Fröhlich, David; Rios, Annette; Pfütze, Dominik; Battisti, Alessia; Ebling, Sarah (2023). Analyzing sentence alignment for automatic simplification of German texts. In: Deilen, Silvana; Hansen-Schirra, Silvia; Hernández Garrido, Sergio; Christiane, Maaß; Tardel, Anke. Emerging Fields in Easy Language and Accessible Communication Research. Berlin, Germany: Frank&Timme, 339-369.
Kew, Tannon; Ebling, Sarah (2022). Target-Level Sentence Simplification as Controlled Paraphrasing. In: Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022), Abu Dhabi, 8 Dezember 2022.
Hauser, Renate; Vamvas, Jannis; Ebling, Sarah; Volk, Martin (2022). A Multilingual Simplified Language News Corpus. In: 2nd Workshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with REAding DIfficulties (READI) within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marseille, France, 24 June 2022. European Language Resources Association, 25-30.
Spring, Nicolas; Kostrzewa, Marek; Rios, Annette; Ebling, Sarah (2022). Ensembling and Score-Based Filtering in Sentence Alignment for Automatic Simplification of German Texts. In: International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2022). Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Novel Design Approaches and Technologies., Virtual, 26 June 2022 - 1 July 2022. Springer, 137-149.
Ebling, Sarah; Battisti, Alessia; Kostrzewa, Marek; Pfütze, Dominik; Rios, Annette; Säuberli, Andreas; Spring, Nicolas (2022). Automatic Text Simplification for German. Frontiers in Communication, 7:706718.
Rios, Annette; Spring, Nicolas; Kew, Tannon; Kostrzewa, Marek; Säuberli, Andreas; Müller, Mathias; Ebling, Sarah (2021). 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.
Spring, Nicolas; Rios, Annette; Ebling, Sarah (2021). 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.
Moryossef, Amit; Tsochantaridis, Ioannis; Dinn, Joe; Camgöz, Necati Cihan; Bowden, Richard; Jiang, Tao; Rios, Annette; Müller, Mathias; Ebling, Sarah (2021). 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.
Moryossef, Amit; Tsochantaridis, Ioannis; Aharoni, Roee; Ebling, Sarah; Narayanan, Srini (2020). Real-Time Sign Language Detection using Human Pose Estimation. ArXiv.org 04637, Cornell University.
Klenner, Manfred; Göhring, Anne; Amsler, Michael (2020). 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.
Edited by: Ebling, Sarah; Tuggener, Don; Hürlimann, Manuela; Cieliebak, M; Volk, Martin (2020). Zurich: CEUR-ws. Proceedings of the 5th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) & 16th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS).
Battisti, Alessia; Pfütze, Dominik; Säuberli, Andreas; Kostrzewa, Marek; Ebling, Sarah (2020). 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.
Säuberli, Andreas; Ebling, Sarah; Volk, Martin (2020). 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.
Battisti, Alessia; Ebling, Sarah; Volk, Martin (2019). 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.
Haug, Tobias; Ebling, Sarah (2019). Using Open-Source Software for Sign Language Learning and Assessment. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning, 14(19):188-196.
Haug, Tobias; Ebling, Sarah; Boyes Braem, Penny; Tissi, Katja; Sidler-Miserez, Sandra (2019). 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.
Battisti, Alessia. Automatic Cluster Analysis of Texts in Simplified German. 2019, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
Ebling, Sarah (2018). 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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Teaching

Fall 2023	Artificial Intelligence for Language Accessibility (lecture)
Spring 2022	Language Technology for Accessibility (Sprachtechnologie als Beitrag zur Barrierefreiheit) (lecture)
Fall 2021	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)