Rolf Schwitter

Rolf Schwitter is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing, Macquarie University. His research focuses on natural and formal language processing, including controlled natural languages, answer extraction, knowledge representation, probabilistic logic programming, and Semantic Web technologies. He holds an h-index of 13 with over 944 citations. His work emphasizes bridging human-readable and machine-processable systems, particularly in legal and technical domains.

Key research contributions include developing frameworks like PENG ASP for declarative programming in natural language, smart contract systems, and hybrid explainability tools like HESIP. He leads projects such as Policy Automation: Reconstructing Policy Documents for Objective Decision Making (2018–present) and has collaborated on initiatives like TwitterNews+ for real-time event detection.

• Research Themes: Controlled Natural Languages, Smart Contracts, Explainable AI, Legal Informatics
• Notable Projects: User-guided legal document processing, error-free smart contracts, hybrid prediction explanations

Received the 2023 Faculty of Science and Engineering Award for Inter-School Collaboration. Active in academic publishing with over 117 research outputs spanning conferences, journals, and book chapters.