Luisa Carrer
Luisa Carrer
ZHAW
School of Applied Linguistics
Institute of Multilingual Communication
Work at ZHAW
Position
- Research Associate | IUED Institute of Translation and Interpreting
- Research Associate | IMK Institute of Multilingual Communication
Projects
- Inclusive Digital Citizen Science: a technology-driven applied linguistics project within a disability studies framework / Co-project leader / ongoing
- Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies / Team member / ongoing
- Accessible communication between hearing-impaired people and healthcare professionals / Team member / completed
- Proposal and Implementation of a Swiss Centre for Barrier-Free Communication / Team member / completed
Publications
Book chapters, peer-reviewed
Jekat, S. J., Carrer, L., & Lintner, A. (2023). A change of perspective in Easy Language research : towards a focus on productive writing abilities of people with intellectual disabilities. In S. Deilen, S. Hansen-Schirra, S. Hernández Garrido, C. Maaß, & A. Tardel (Eds.), Emerging fields in Easy Language and Accessible Communication Research (pp. 169–200). Frank & Timme.
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
- Carrer, L., Säuberli, A., Kappus, M., & Ebling, S. (2024). Towards holistic human evaluation of automatic text simplification [Conference paper]. In S. Balloccu, A. Belz, R. Huidrom, E. Reiter, J. Sedoc, & C. Thomson (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems (HumEval 2024) (pp. 71–80). ELRA. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-31346
- Carrer, L., D’Agostino, D., Ebling, S., & Lintner, A. (2023). A shift in focus from receptive to productive abilities of Easy Language target groups : proposal for an inclusive corpus linguistics study. 3rd KLAARA Conference – Easy Language and Communication, Leiria, Portugal, 3-7 July 2023.
- Carrer, L. (2021). The case for Easy Italian : an empirical study on the impact of translators’ strategies on text comprehensibility [Conference paper]. In S. J. Jekat, P. Steffen, & A. Lintner (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd Swiss conference on barrier-free communication (BfC 2020) (pp. 141–150). ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3001
- Proceedings of the 3rd Swiss conference on barrier-free communication (BfC 2020). (2021). In S. J. Jekat, S. Puhl, L. Carrer, & A. Lintner (Eds.), 3rd Swiss Conference on Barrier-free Communication (BfC 2020), Winterthur (online), 29 June - 4 July 2020. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3001
- Jekat, S. J., & Carrer, L. (2018). A reception study of descriptive vs. interpretative audio description [Conference paper]. Proceedings of the Second Barrier-Free Communication Conference – Accessibility in Educational Settings (BFC 2018), 54–57. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4994
Other publications
- Carrer, L., & Sterchi, A. (2022). A survey on Easy Language in Switzerland : service providers’ perspectives. Klaara-Blogi. https://blogs.helsinki.fi/klaara-network/2022/09/23/carrer-sterchi-a-survey-on-easy-language-in-switzerland-service-providers-perspectives
- Jekat, S. J., Puhl, S., Carrer, L., Hagmann, D., Lintner, A., Lopes Torres, S., & Parli, M. (2021). Audiodeskription verständlich erklärt : Einblicke in Theorie und Praxis. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22825
- Parpan-Blaser, A., Girard-Groeber, S., Antener, G., Arn, C., Baumann, R., Caplazi, A., & Carrer, L. (2021). Easy Language in Switzerland. In C. Lindholm & U. Vanhatalo (Eds.), Handbook of Easy Languages in Europe (pp. 573–622). Frank & Timme.
Oral conference contributions and abstracts
Jekat, S. J., Carrer, L., & Lintner, A. (2021). Easy language research : proposal for a change of perspective. 7th IATIS International Conference: The Cultural Ecology of Translation, Barcelona, Spain, 14-17 September 2021.