Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling
Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling
ZHAW
School of Applied Linguistics
Institute of Translation and Interpreting
Theaterstrasse 15c
8400 Winterthur
Personal profile
Management role
Head, Accessibility Studies Professorship
Position at the ZHAW
Professor of Accessibility Studies
www.zhaw.ch/en/linguistics/research/accessibility-studies/
Expertise and research interests
Accessible communication, e-accessibility, assistive technologies, language technology, computational linguistics
Educational background
10/2016-11/2018: University of Zurich: CAS Higher Education
11/2011-02/2016: Universität Zürich: PhD in Computational Linguistics (summa cum laude); Title: "Automatic Translation from German to Synthesized Swiss German Sign Language"
09/2008-07/2009: University of Heidelberg, Germany: Two-semester Erasmus stay
10/2004-10/2011: University of Zurich: Licenciate Licentiate (equivalent to Master’s degree) in German Linguistics and Literature, Computational Linguistics, English Linguistics
Professional milestones
08/2019-today: Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich: Senior researcher and lecturer (50%)
02/2020-07/2020: Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich: acting professorship (Prof. Dr. Martin Volk)
01/2019-09/2019: Digital Society Initiative (DSI), University of Zurich: Research fellow
01/2019-07/2019: Institute for Language and Communication Special Needs, University of Teacher Education in Special Needs (HfH): Senior researcher and lecturer
03/2016-07/2019: Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich: lecturer
03/2016-12/2018: Institute for Language and Communication Special Needs, University of Teacher Education in Special Needs (HfH): Postdoc, SNSF Sinergia project "Scalable Multimodal Sign Language Technology for Sign Language Learning and Assessment"
03/2015-08/2015: Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, Center for Accessibility and Inclusion Research (CAIR), Golisano College of Computer and Information Sciences (Prof. Dr. Matt Huenerfauth): Visiting researcher
02/2015: DePaul University Chicago, USA, Human-Computer Interaction and Computer Graphics Division, School of Computing (Prof. Dr. Rosalee Wolfe): Visiting researcher
10/2013-10/2014: Departement Research and Development (F&E), University of Teacher Education in Special Needs (HfH): Research assistant, SNSF project "Gaze and Productive Signing in a Corpus of Interactions of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Signers of Swiss German Sign Language (DSGS)"
11/2011-02/2016: Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich: Research assistant
04/2011-12/2011: Dublin City University, Ireland, School of Computing (Prof. Dr. Andy Way): Visiting researcher