News and Events

Interview in "tactuel" upon completion of the IICT Flagship Project

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:16:37 GMT

"tactuel" is an expert journal on visual impairment and deafblindness. In the interview Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling reflects on results and insights of the IICT Flagship.

Highly valuable DSGS dataset on SWISSUbase

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:33:55 GMT

SMILE Continuous DSGS Corpus is now available on SWISSUbase

Paper on new automatic metric for evaluating German text simplification accepted to EACL 2026 Main Conference

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:04:49 GMT

DETECT is the first German-specific metric that holistically evaluates automatic text simplification quality across all three dimensions of simplicity, meaning preservation, and fluency, and is trained entirely on synthetic large language model responses.

Technologies to improve digital inclusion for people with hearing impairments

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:00:00 GMT

In the Netzwoche article published on 9 March 2026, Sarah Ebling provides insight into her current research on technologies for the digital inclusion for people with hearing impairments

Workshop at Google ADC Zurich

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Impressions from the workshop in the context of our Multimodal Accessibility Planning (MAP) Project at Google Zurich‘s Accessibility Discovery Center

Preprint on sign language alignment released and presented at BMVA

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:27:41 GMT

Zifan Jiang presented a new preprint on a universal approach for aligning subtitles to sign language video content.

Paper on sign language pose eval accepted and presented at WMT 2025

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:11:35 GMT

Our paper Meaningful Pose-Based Sign Language Evaluation is accepted and presented at WMT 2025 (co-located with EMNLP 2025)!

Invitation to IICT Information Event

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:20:02 GMT

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

DSI Spotlights with Sarah Ebling

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:21:38 GMT

DSI Spotlights shed light on individual aspects of digitalization in a maximum of three minutes

UZH-i-Ringvorlesung: Behinderung und Inklusion aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:12:27 GMT

Aufzeichnung der Vorträge auch mit DSGS

ABGESAGT: Abendveranstaltung vom 3. November 2025

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 10:17:26 GMT

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.

UZH-i-Ringvorlesung: Behinderung und Inklusion aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:59:35 GMT

Öffentliche Veranstaltung vom 17. September bis 17. Dezember 2025, jeden Mittwoch von 18.15 bis 19.45 Uhr.

5 Years of LiZZ & LiRI

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 16:32:33 GMT

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.

High School Students Visit Our Department

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 10:39:38 GMT

A group of twelve high school students interested in translation visited us to learn more about our work

Our research group was well represented at the MT Summit Geneva 2025

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:49:39 GMT

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.

Launch of the Digilinguo project on 19 June 2025

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:52:44 GMT

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.

Paper SwissADT accepted at NAACL 2025

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:48:46 GMT

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.

SCSC Annual Meeting with Keynote by Sarah Ebling

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:15:40 GMT

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.

Teaching Tools Podcast with Sarah Ebling

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:25:59 GMT

Podcast exploring the actual impact of GenAI on higher education.

MT Summit Geneva 2025

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:08:29 GMT

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.

E-Accessibility Symposium 2024

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling at the e-accessibility symposium which took place on 21. November 2024.

Paper SignCLIP accepted and presented at EMNLP 2024

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 10:22:39 GMT

SignCLIP re-purposes CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining) to project spoken language text and sign language videos into the same space.

EMNLP 2024 Demonstration Paper Awards

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:05:23 GMT

Amit Moryossef wins outstanding demo paper award at EMNLP2024

SRF Podcast «Digitale Inklusion: Was bringt KI?»

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling interviewed on the topic of "Accessibility and AI"

Inaugural Lectures 2024

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Inaugural lecture of our chair, Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling, on 2 December 2024

Sign Language and Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Aspects

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 22:00:00 GMT

Event on 12 November 2024, organized by our chair

Symposium on «E-Accessibility» 2024

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 22:00:00 GMT

Talk by Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling at the online symposium «E-Accessibility» on 21 November 2024

5th LiZZ-Gespräch: Multimodality

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:00:00 GMT

Join the 5th LiZZ panel discussion on 24 October 2024

Our Chair at the AI+X SUMMIT 2024

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:00:00 GMT

Meet members of our chair at the UZH booth

Webinar at UZH's Teaching Inspiration Week

Sun, 25 Aug 2024 22:00:00 GMT

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

Lightning Talk by Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling at this year's DIZH Plenary Assembly

Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:00:00 GMT

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.

SwissNLP Award 2024 for sign language machine translation

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 22:00:00 GMT

Sarah Ebling and serveral members of her team receive this year’s SwissNLP Award for their work in sign language machine translation

Book release: "Leichte Sprache. Grundlagen, Diskussionen, Praxisfelder"

Mon, 06 May 2024 22:00:00 GMT

With a contribution from Prof Dr Sarah Ebling

On the contribution of generative AI to web accessibility

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 22:00:00 GMT

Article by Prof Dr Sarah Ebling in the magazine Netzwoche

Launch of Google Accessibility Discovery Center (ADC) Zurich

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Sarah Ebling will take part in the launch event on 16 May 2024

IICT Consortium Meeting March 2024

Sat, 09 Mar 2024 15:12:40 GMT

The IICT consortium met at Technopark Winterthur to discuss recent progress and prepare for the upcoming review meeting with Innosuisse.

EASIER Project Concluded

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 08:07:13 GMT

The EASIER EU H2020 project came to an end with the final review on February 29, 2024 in Hamburg, Germany.

Paper on comprehensibility assessment accepted to CHI 2024

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 23:00:00 GMT

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)

Inclusion through technology

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Newspaper article about Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling's research

Flagship Get-Together 2024

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Innosuisse invites Flagship Consortia to exchange insights

Campus Oerlikon – Lecture Series Fall Semester 23

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 23:00:00 GMT

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.

SAGG Germanistiktag 2023

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 23:00:00 GMT

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.

Talk at “Forum Digitale Kommunikation”

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 23:00:00 GMT

An event on 9 November 2023, organized by Digitale Verwaltung Schweiz.

Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2023

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:38:41 GMT

Award for research on sign language machine translation.

WMT Shared Task

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 14:37:59 GMT

Second edition of the shared task on sign language translation.

Journal Paper on Assessing Text Comprehensibility for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 22:00:00 GMT