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 / completed
- 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. and Lintner, A. (2023) 'A change of perspective in Easy Language research : towards a focus on productive writing abilities of people with intellectual disabilities', in Deilen, S. et al. (eds) Emerging fields in Easy Language and Accessible Communication Research. Berlin: Frank & Timme, pp. 169–200.
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
- Carrer, L. et al. (2024) 'Towards holistic human evaluation of automatic text simplification', in Balloccu, S. et al. (eds) Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems (HumEval 2024). ELRA, pp. 71–80. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-31346.
- Carrer, L. et al. (2023) 'A shift in focus from receptive to productive abilities of Easy Language target groups : proposal for an inclusive corpus linguistics study', in 3rd KLAARA Conference – Easy Language and Communication, Leiria, Portugal, 3-7 July 2023.
- Jekat, S. J. et al. (eds) (2021) Proceedings of the 3rd Swiss conference on barrier-free communication (BfC 2020), 3rd Swiss Conference on Barrier-free Communication (BfC 2020), Winterthur (online), 29 June - 4 July 2020. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-3001.
- Carrer, L. (2021) 'The case for Easy Italian : an empirical study on the impact of translators' strategies on text comprehensibility', in Jekat, S. J., Steffen, P., and Lintner, A. (eds) Proceedings of the 3rd Swiss conference on barrier-free communication (BfC 2020). Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, pp. 141–150. Available at: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3001.
- Jekat, S. J. and Carrer, L. (2018) 'A reception study of descriptive vs. interpretative audio description', in Proceedings of the Second Barrier-Free Communication Conference – Accessibility in Educational Settings (BFC 2018). Genève: UNIGE Archive Ouverte, pp. 54–57. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-4994.
Other publications
- Carrer, L. and Sterchi, A. (2022) 'A survey on Easy Language in Switzerland : service providers' perspectives', Klaara-blogi. Available at: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/klaara-network/2022/09/23/carrer-sterchi-a-survey-on-easy-language-in-switzerland-service-providers-perspectives.
- Jekat, S. J. et al. (2021) Audiodeskription verständlich erklärt : Einblicke in Theorie und Praxis. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-22825.
- Parpan-Blaser, A. et al. (2021) 'Easy Language in Switzerland', in Lindholm, C. and Vanhatalo, U. (eds) Handbook of Easy Languages in Europe. Berlin: Frank & Timme, pp. 573–622.
Oral conference contributions and abstracts
Jekat, S. J., Carrer, L. and Lintner, A. (2021) 'Easy language research : proposal for a change of perspective', in 7th IATIS International Conference: The Cultural Ecology of Translation, Barcelona, Spain, 14-17 September 2021.