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Alessia Battisti is a Researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts, affiliated with the Language, Technology and Accessibility Group. Her research focuses on sign language technology, accessibility, and natural language processing, particularly in the context of Swiss German Sign Language. She has contributed to projects like SMILE-II (funded by an SNF Sinergia grant) and the Flagship IICT. Battisti is actively involved in academic communities as the student representative on the board of the Special Interest Group on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SIG-SLPAT).
Research Interests include:
- Swiss German Sign Language assessment and learning
- Automated readability and text simplification
- Sign language annotation and feedback systems
- Human motion modeling for sign language analysis
- Multilingual dataset curation and quality evaluation
Recent Publications highlight her work in sign language fluency scales, automated annotation, and German text simplification frameworks. She collaborates on international initiatives like the First WMT Shared Task on Sign Language Translation.
Grants include the SNF Sinergia grant supporting the SMILE-II project. Her work intersects computational linguistics, accessibility research, and machine learning to advance sign language and simplified text technologies.
Labs/Teams: Language, Technology and Accessibility Group at the University of Zurich; SIG-SLPAT Special Interest Group.
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