Bio

Susanne J. Jekat was a research associate at the Department of Informatics of the University of Hamburg, head of subprojects in the joint research project VERBMOBIL funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, and a founding member of the Collaborative Research Centre on Multilingualism between 1993 and 2002. Since 2002, she has worked as lecturer at the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (IUED) at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), since 2011 as a professor of Language Technology and Multilingual Communication, and head of the Centre for Computational Linguistics. The focus of both her work and research lies in computer-aided translation and barrier-free communication, especially audio description for the visually impaired, respeaking for the hearing impaired and simplified language. Commencing this year and until 2020, she will be leading the project entitled “Proposal and Implementation of a Swiss Research Centre for Barrier-Free Communication”, on which the University of Geneva will be collaborating.

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Check Susanne’s work related to the BFC project in the Publications page