Alexa Lintner

Work at ZHAW

Position

Operational Manager and Research Associate | Professorship of Accessibility Studies

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

• Fischer, L., Gao, Y., Lintner, A., Rios, A., & Ebling, S. (2025). SwissADT : an audio description translation system for Swiss languages [Conference paper]. In W. Chen, Y. Yang, M. Kachuee, & X.-Y. Fu (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 3: Industry Track) (pp. 370–379). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-industry.31
• Gao, Y., Fischer, L., Lintner, A., & Ebling, S. (2025). Audio description generation in the era of LLMs and VLMs : a review of transferable generative AI technologies [Conference paper]. In L. Chiruzzo, A. Ritter, & L. Wang (Eds.), Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025 (pp. 471–490). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.findings-naacl.29
• 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.
• 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
• Lintner, A. (2018). Naming and describing characters in audio description of documentary films [Conference paper]. In P. Bouillon, S. Rodriguez Vazquez, & I. Strasly (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second Swiss Conference on Barrier-Free Communication (BFC 2018) - Accessibility in Educational Settings (pp. 62–67). UNIGE Archive Ouverte. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-34422

Other publications

• 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
• Jekat, S. J., Hagmann, D., & Lintner, A. (2020). Texte in Leichter Sprache : Entwicklungsstand und Hinweise zur Qualitätsoptimierung. In F. Heidrich & K. Schubert (eds.), Fachkommunikation – gelenkt, geregelt, optimiert (pp. 171–190). Universitätsverlag Hildesheim. https://doi.org/10.18442/087
• Jekat, S. J., Germann, E., Lintner, A., & Soland, C. (2017). Wahlprogramme in Leichter Sprache – eine korpuslinguistische Annäherung. In B. M. Bock, U. Fix, & D. Lange (eds.), „Leichte Sprache“ im Spiegel theoretischer und angewandter Forschung (pp. 229–246). Frank & Timme.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Rivas Ginel, M. I., Kappus, M., Lintner, A., Moorkens, J., Noonan, W., & Pintado-Gutiérrez, L. (2025). A multilingual exploratory study of generative AI usage for museum audio description. Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description (ARSAD), Barcelona, Spain, 19-21 March 2025. https://webs.uab.cat/arsad/wp-content/uploads/sites/251/2025/03/2_Rivas-Ginel_ARSAD2025.pdf
• Lüthi, N., Lintner, A., Fischer, L., Kappus, M., & Ebling, S. (2025). An exploratory analysis of LLM-based machine-translated audio description scripts in the French-German language pair. Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description (ARSAD), Barcelona, Spain, 19-21 March 2025. https://webs.uab.cat/arsad/wp-content/uploads/sites/251/2025/03/3_Luthi-et-al_ARSAD2025.pdf
• 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.

go back