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 / 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

• Fischer, L. et al. (2025) 'SwissADT : an audio description translation system for Swiss languages', in Chen, W. et al. (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). Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 370–379. doi: 10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-industry.31.
• Gao, Y. et al. (2025) 'Audio description generation in the era of LLMs and VLMs : a review of transferable generative AI technologies', in Chiruzzo, L., Ritter, A., and Wang, L. (eds) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 471–490. doi: 10.18653/v1/2025.findings-naacl.29.
• 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.
• Lintner, A. (2018) 'Naming and describing characters in audio description of documentary films', in Bouillon, P., Rodriguez Vazquez, S., and Strasly, I. (eds) Proceedings of the Second Swiss Conference on Barrier-Free Communication (BFC 2018) - Accessibility in Educational Settings. Genève: UNIGE Archive Ouverte, pp. 62–67. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-34422.

Other publications

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

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Rivas Ginel, M. I. et al. (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 at: https://webs.uab.cat/arsad/wp-content/uploads/sites/251/2025/03/2_Rivas-Ginel_ARSAD2025.pdf.
• Lüthi, N. et al. (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 at: https://webs.uab.cat/arsad/wp-content/uploads/sites/251/2025/03/3_Luthi-et-al_ARSAD2025.pdf.
• 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.

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