--- title: "Sarah Ebling · University of Zurich — author profile and papers" description: "Sarah Ebling, University of Zurich: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 16 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sarah-ebling/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sarah-ebling/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Sarah Ebling # Sarah Ebling Sarah Ebling has 4 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/); often with [Luisa Carrer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luisa-carrer/), [Yingqiang Gao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yingqiang-gao/), [Andreas Säuberli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andreas-sauberli/). 4 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5044706756) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6511-5085) · [**h-index 16**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5044706756) · [173 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5044706756) · [868 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5044706756&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sarah-ebling/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 181 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sarah-ebling/cited-by/) · [10 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7995](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/80/#star-7995) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Sarah+Ebling) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Sarah+Ebling) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Sarah+Ebling) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Sarah+Ebling) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Zurich** Zurich · Switzerland 2011–2026 · 90 papersEmployment*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-zurich/) · [🎓**University of Teacher Education in Special Needs** Zurich · Switzerland 2018–2019 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/00w9q2c06) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 11 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Human-Computer Interaction · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/human-computer-interaction/) · [Human Factors and Ergonomics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/human-factors-and-ergonomics/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Developmental and Educational Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/developmental-and-educational-psychology/) · [Medicine · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/) · [Physiology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/physiology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Machine translation · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Latent semantic indexing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/latent-semantic-indexing/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sarah-ebling/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sarah-ebling/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sarah-ebling/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Findings of the Second WMT Shared Task on Sign Language Translation (WMT-SLT23)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/muller-2023-findings-second-wmt-shared-task/)** *(2023 · 39 citations)* WMT-SLT23, the second edition of the WMT shared task on sign language translation, asks systems to translate between signed and spoken languages. 2. **[Evaluating the Effectiveness of Direct Preference Optimization for Personalizing German Automatic Text Simplifications for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gao-2025-evaluating-effectiveness-direct-preference-optimization/)** *(2025 · 4 citations)* German automatic text simplification (ATS) models are usually trained on data curated by experts. The people they are meant to serve, persons with intellectual disabilities, rarely influence how these systems are built. This paper tests whether direct preference optimization (DPO) can steer LLM-based ATS systems… 3. **[Benchmarking NLP-supported Language Sample Analysis for Swiss Children's Speech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ryser-2026-benchmarking-nlp-supported-language-sample/)** *(2026)* Language sample analysis (LSA) helps speech-language pathologists diagnose developmental language disorder (DLD) in children. 4. **[Evaluating LLM-based Text Simplification for German: Effects on Post-Editing Effort, Quality Ratings, and User Comprehension](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/carrer-2026-evaluating-llm-based-text-simplification/)** *(2026)* The paper asks whether current LLM-based simplifiers for German are useful in realistic document-level Easy Language production. ## All works 14 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Building a German/Simple German Parallel Corpus for Automatic Text Simplification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W13-2902/) Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations · no summary yet**David Klaper, Sarah Ebling, Martin Volk*2013 · 78 citations* 2. **[A New Dataset and Efficient Baselines for Document-level Text Simplification in German ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.newsum-1.16/) Proceedings of the Third Workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization · no summary yet**Annette Rios et al.*2021 · 47 citations* 3. **[Benchmarking Data-driven Automatic Text Simplification for German ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.readi-1.7/) Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with REAding DIfficulties (READI) · no summary yet**Andreas Säuberli, Sarah Ebling, Martin Volk*2020 · 43 citations* 4. **[Findings of the Second WMT Shared Task on Sign Language Translation (WMT-SLT23)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/muller-2023-findings-second-wmt-shared-task/) [Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/)**Mathias Müller, Malihe Alikhani, Eleftherios Avramidis, et al.*2023 · 39 citations* 5. **[A Corpus for Automatic Readability Assessment and Text Simplification of German ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.404/) Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yet**Alessia Battisti et al.*2020 · 31 citations* 6. **[Target-Level Sentence Simplification as Controlled Paraphrasing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.tsar-1.4/) Proceedings of the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022) · no summary yet**Tannon Kew, Sarah Ebling*2022 · 16 citations* 7. **[Digital Comprehensibility Assessment of Simplified Texts among Persons with Intellectual Disabilities ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13094) arXiv:2402.13094 · no summary yet**Andreas Sauberli et al.*2024 · 14 citations* 8. **[Towards Holistic Human Evaluation of Automatic Text Simplification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.humeval-1.7/) Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems (HumEval) @ LREC-COLING 2024 · no summary yet**Luisa Carrer et al.*2024 · 6 citations* 9. **[20 Minuten: A Multi-task News Summarisation Dataset for German ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.swisstext-1.1/) Proceedings of the 8th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference · no summary yet**Tannon Kew, Marek Kostrzewa, Sarah Ebling*2023 · 6 citations* 10. [**Evaluating the Effectiveness of Direct Preference Optimization for Personalizing German Automatic Text Simplifications for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities arXiv:2507.01479**Yingqiang Gao, Kaede Johnson, David Froehlich, et al.*2025 · 4 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gao-2025-evaluating-effectiveness-direct-preference-optimization/) 11. **[An Empirical Analysis of Linguistic, Typographic, and Structural Features in Simplified German Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2019.clicit-1.6/) Proceedings of the Sixth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2019) · no summary yet**Alessia Battisti, Sarah Ebling, Martin Volk*2019 · 3 citations* 12. **[Combining Semantic and Syntactic Generalization in Example-Based Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2011.eamt-1.29/) Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation · no summary yet**Sarah Ebling et al.*2011 · 3 citations* 13. **[Benchmarking NLP-supported Language Sample Analysis for Swiss Children's Speech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ryser-2026-benchmarking-nlp-supported-language-sample/) [Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric/developmental impairments in cooperation with the MENTAL.ai consortium](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/rapid/)**Anja Ryser, Yingqiang Gao, Sarah Ebling*2026* 14. **[Evaluating LLM-based Text Simplification for German: Effects on Post-Editing Effort, Quality Ratings, and User Comprehension](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/carrer-2026-evaluating-llm-based-text-simplification/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Luisa Carrer, Andreas Säuberli, Martin Kappus, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Luisa Carrer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luisa-carrer/) ×2 - [Yingqiang Gao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yingqiang-gao/) ×2 - [Andreas Säuberli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andreas-sauberli/) - [Cristina España-Bonet](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cristina-espana-bonet/) - [Eleftherios Avramidis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eleftherios-avramidis/) - [Malihe Alikhani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/malihe-alikhani/) - [Mathias Müller](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mathias-muller/) - [Roman Grundkiewicz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/roman-grundkiewicz/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/) ×2: [LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2026/) - [Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric/developmental impairments in cooperation with the MENTAL.ai consortium](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/rapid/): [Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric/developmental impairments in cooperation with the MENTAL.ai consortium 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/rapid/2026/) - [Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/): [WMT 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/2023/) - Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation - Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with REAding DIfficulties (READI) - Proceedings of the 8th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference - Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems (HumEval) @ LREC-COLING 2024 - Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations - Proceedings of the Sixth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2019) - Proceedings of the Third Workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization - Proceedings of the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 181 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [15 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sarah-ebling/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026