Alexa Lintner

Work at ZHAW

Position

Operational Manager and Research Associate | Professorship of Accessibility Studies

Projects

• 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

• Jekat, Susanne Johanna; Carrer, Luisa; Lintner, Alexa,

  2023.

  A change of perspective in Easy Language research : towards a focus on productive writing abilities of people with intellectual disabilities.

  In:

  Deilen, Silvana; Hansen-Schirra, Silvia; Hernández Garrido, Sergio; Maaß, Christiane; Tardel, Anke, eds.,

  Emerging fields in Easy Language and Accessible Communication Research.

  Berlin:

  Frank & Timme.

  pp. 169-200.

• Gao, Yingqiang; Fischer, Lukas; Lintner, Alexa; Ebling, Sarah,

  2025.

  Audio description generation in the era of LLMs and VLMs : a review of transferable generative AI technologies[paper].

  In:

  Chiruzzo, Luis; Ritter, Alan; Wang, Lu, eds.,

  Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025.

  Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Albuquerque, USA, 29 April - 4 May 2025.

  Association for Computational Linguistics.

  pp. 471-490.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.findings-naacl.29

• Fischer, Lukas; Gao, Yingqiang; Lintner, Alexa; Rios, Annette; Ebling, Sarah,

  2025.

  SwissADT : an audio description translation system for Swiss languages[paper].

  In:

  Chen, Weizhu; Yang, Yi; Kachuee, Mohammad; Fu, Xue-Yong, 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).

  Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Albuquerque, USA, 29 April - 4 May 2025.

  Association for Computational Linguistics.

  pp. 370-379.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-industry.31

• Carrer, Luisa; D'Agostino, Dario; Ebling, Sarah; Lintner, Alexa,

  2023.

  A shift in focus from receptive to productive abilities of Easy Language target groups : proposal for an inclusive corpus linguistics study[poster].

  In:

  3rd KLAARA Conference – Easy Language and Communication, Leiria, Portugal, 3-7 July 2023.

• Jekat, Susanne Johanna; Puhl, Steffen; Carrer, Luisa; Lintner, Alexa, 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.

  .

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3001

• Lintner, Alexa,

  2018.

  Naming and describing characters in audio description of documentary films[paper].

  In:

  Bouillon, Pierrette; Rodriguez Vazquez, Silvia; Strasly, Irene, eds.,

  Proceedings of the Second Swiss Conference on Barrier-Free Communication (BFC 2018) - Accessibility in Educational Settings.

  2nd Swiss Conference on Barrier-free Communication (BfC), Geneva, Switzerland, 9-10 November 2018.

  Genève:

  UNIGE Archive Ouverte.

  pp. 62-67.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-34422

• Jekat, Susanne Johanna; Puhl, Steffen; Carrer, Luisa; Hagmann, David; Lintner, Alexa; Lopes Torres, Sabrina; Parli, Michelle,

  2021.

  Audiodeskription verständlich erklärt : Einblicke in Theorie und Praxis.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22825

• Jekat, Susanne Johanna; Hagmann, David; Lintner, Alexa,

  2020.

  Texte in Leichter Sprache : Entwicklungsstand und Hinweise zur Qualitätsoptimierung.

  In:

  Heidrich, Franziska; Schubert, Klaus, eds.,

  Fachkommunikation – gelenkt, geregelt, optimiert.

  Hildesheim:

  Universitätsverlag Hildesheim.

  pp. 171-190.

  Fach – Sprache – Kommunikation ; 1.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.18442/087

• Jekat, Susanne Johanna; Germann, Esther; Lintner, Alexa; Soland, Corinne,

  2017.

  Wahlprogramme in Leichter Sprache – eine korpuslinguistische Annäherung.

  In:

  Bock, Bettina M.; Fix, Ulla; Lange, Daisy, eds.,

  „Leichte Sprache“ im Spiegel theoretischer und angewandter Forschung.

  Berlin:

  Frank & Timme.

  pp. 229-246.

  Kommunikation - Partizipation - Inklusion ; 1.

• Rivas Ginel, María Isabel; Kappus, Martin; Lintner, Alexa; Moorkens, Joss; Noonan, Will; Pintado-Gutiérrez, Lucía,

  2025.

  A multilingual exploratory study of generative AI usage for museum audio description.

  In:

  Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description (ARSAD), Barcelona, Spain, 19-21 March 2025.

  Available from: https://webs.uab.cat/arsad/wp-content/uploads/sites/251/2025/03/2_Rivas-Ginel_ARSAD2025.pdf

• Lüthi, Nicole; Lintner, Alexa; Fischer, Lukas; Kappus, Martin; Ebling, Sarah,

  2025.

  An exploratory analysis of LLM-based machine-translated audio description scripts in the French-German language pair.

  In:

  Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description (ARSAD), Barcelona, Spain, 19-21 March 2025.

  Available from: https://webs.uab.cat/arsad/wp-content/uploads/sites/251/2025/03/3_Luthi-et-al_ARSAD2025.pdf

• Jekat, Susanne Johanna; Carrer, Luisa; Lintner, Alexa,

  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.

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