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Sarah Ebling is a Full Professor ad personam in Language Technology at the University of Zurich's Digital Society Initiative. Her research is situated in the field of computational linguistics with a strong focus on language-based assistive technologies for individuals with disabilities. She emphasizes basic application-oriented research that develops reception technologies. Her work notably incorporates methods from natural language processing (NLP), specifically emphasizing artificial intelligence (AI). Ebling’s research context is primarily concerned with hearing and visual impairments, cognitive issues, and language disorders. Key areas of her investigation include sign language technologies, automatic text simplification, and the technologies behind audio description. Ebling adopts a transversal approach to multimodality, which examines assistive technologies across digital modalities including the production modalities utilized in sign language. Furthermore, she has been actively involved in international projects such as the EU Horizon 2020 initiatives and serves as the Principal Investigator for a significant Swiss innovation project titled 'Inclusive Information Communication Technologies' (2022-2026) with a budget of 12 million Swiss Francs. She has an educational background in German Linguistics, Literature, Computational Linguistics, and English Linguistics from the Universities of Zurich and Heidelberg, complemented by research experiences in Dublin, Chicago, and Rochester, NY. Ebling defended her doctoral thesis titled 'Automatic Translation from German to Synthesized Swiss German Sign Language' in February 2016, graduating summa cum laude.
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