News and Events
News list
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Preprint on sign language alignment released and presented at BMVA
Zifan Jiang presented a new preprint on a universal approach for aligning subtitles to sign language video content.
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Paper on sign language pose eval accepted and presented at WMT 2025
Our paper Meaningful Pose-Based Sign Language Evaluation is accepted and presented at WMT 2025 (co-located with EMNLP 2025)!
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Invitation to IICT Information Event
Public event organized by IICT Flagship, Allianz Digitale Inklusion Schweiz (ADIS), Federal Bureau for the Equality of People with Disabilities (FBED) on 20 January 2026 in Bern
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DSI Spotlights with Sarah Ebling
DSI Spotlights shed light on individual aspects of digitalization in a maximum of three minutes
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UZH-i-Ringvorlesung: Behinderung und Inklusion aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive
Aufzeichnung der Vorträge auch mit DSGS
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ABGESAGT: Abendveranstaltung vom 3. November 2025
Die Abendveranstaltung "Gemeinsam die Zukunft gestalten: Forschung in der Gebärdensprachtechnologie" der Forschungsgruppe Sprache, Technologie und Barrierefreiheit der Universität Zürich vom 3. November 2025 musste leider abgesagt werden.
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UZH-i-Ringvorlesung: Behinderung und Inklusion aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive
Öffentliche Veranstaltung vom 17. September bis 17. Dezember 2025, jeden Mittwoch von 18.15 bis 19.45 Uhr.
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5 Years of LiZZ & LiRI
Join us on September 30 2025, from 16:00 to 19:00, to celebrate the 5-Year Journey Empowering Linguistic Research and Technology at UZH.
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High School Students Visit Our Department
A group of twelve high school students interested in translation visited us to learn more about our work
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Our research group was well represented at the MT Summit Geneva 2025
We are pleased and grateful for the opportunity to present our research at the 20th MT Summit, which took place in Geneva from 23-27 June 2025.
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Launch of the Digilinguo project on 19 June 2025
Digilinguo is a DIZH project to promote sustainable practices in the use of digital translation and language tools, thus allowing for language barriers to be overcome in public institutions.
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Paper SwissADT accepted at NAACL 2025
Our paper “SwissADT: An Audio Description Translation System for Swiss Languages” has been accepted at NAACL 2025 and will be presented in the Industry Track.
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SCSC Annual Meeting with Keynote by Sarah Ebling
Our chair will give a keynote talk at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Cognitive Science of Culture (SCSC). It will be held at UZH on 28 and 29 April 2025.
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Teaching Tools Podcast with Sarah Ebling
Podcast exploring the actual impact of GenAI on higher education.
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MT Summit Geneva 2025
Our chair, Prof Dr Sarah Ebling, has been confirmed as the first keynote speaker at the MT Summit 2025, to be held in Geneva from 23 to 27 June.
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E-Accessibility Symposium 2024
Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling at the e-accessibility symposium which took place on 21. November 2024.
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Paper SignCLIP accepted and presented at EMNLP 2024
SignCLIP re-purposes CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining) to project spoken language text and sign language videos into the same space.
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EMNLP 2024 Demonstration Paper Awards
Amit Moryossef wins outstanding demo paper award at EMNLP2024
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SRF Podcast «Digitale Inklusion: Was bringt KI?»
Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling interviewed on the topic of "Accessibility and AI"
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Inaugural Lectures 2024
Inaugural lecture of our chair, Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling, on 2 December 2024
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Sign Language and Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Aspects
Event on 12 November 2024, organized by our chair
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Symposium on «E-Accessibility» 2024
Talk by Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling at the online symposium «E-Accessibility» on 21 November 2024
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5th LiZZ-Gespräch: Multimodality
Join the 5th LiZZ panel discussion on 24 October 2024
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Webinar at UZH's Teaching Inspiration Week
Webinar by Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling about "Chancen und Risiken von Künstlicher Intelligenz in Bezug auf Barrierefreiheit in der Hochschullehre" as part of the UZH Teaching Inspiration Week
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Lightning Talk by Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling at this year's DIZH Plenary Assembly
The mission of Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions (DIZH) is to promote cooperation on digitalization issues between UZH, ZHAW, ZHdK and PHZH.
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SwissNLP Award 2024 for sign language machine translation
Sarah Ebling and serveral members of her team receive this year’s SwissNLP Award for their work in sign language machine translation
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Book release: "Leichte Sprache. Grundlagen, Diskussionen, Praxisfelder"
With a contribution from Prof Dr Sarah Ebling
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On the contribution of generative AI to web accessibility
Article by Prof Dr Sarah Ebling in the magazine Netzwoche
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Launch of Google Accessibility Discovery Center (ADC) Zurich
Sarah Ebling will take part in the launch event on 16 May 2024
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IICT Consortium Meeting March 2024
The IICT consortium met at Technopark Winterthur to discuss recent progress and prepare for the upcoming review meeting with Innosuisse.
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EASIER Project Concluded
The EASIER EU H2020 project came to an end with the final review on February 29, 2024 in Hamburg, Germany.
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Paper on comprehensibility assessment accepted to CHI 2024
Our paper Digital Comprehensibility Assessment of Simplified Texts among Persons with Intellectual Disabilities has been accepted for publication at the 2024 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'24)
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Inclusion through technology
Newspaper article about Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling's research
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Flagship Get-Together 2024
Innosuisse invites Flagship Consortia to exchange insights
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Campus Oerlikon – Lecture Series Fall Semester 23
On 20 November 2023, Sarah Ebling will give a talk as part of the lecture series “Friend or Foe? Artificial Intelligence as a Challenge for Society” at Campus Oerlikon.
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SAGG Germanistiktag 2023
Sarah Ebling will give a talk about “KI-basierte Kommunikation im Kontext von Barrierefreiheit” (AI-based communication in the context of accessibility) on 1 December 2023 at the University of Basel.
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Talk at “Forum Digitale Kommunikation”
An event on 9 November 2023, organized by Digitale Verwaltung Schweiz.
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Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2023
Award for research on sign language machine translation.
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Journal Paper on Assessing Text Comprehensibility for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities