I am working as the project manager of the European Network of Excellence REWERSE. REWERSE (Reasoning on the Web with Rules and Semantics) is a Semantic Web related research project funded by the European Commission and Switzerland within the 6th Framework Programme. REWERSE involves 27 European research and industry organisations from 14 European countries and about 100 researchers.
In December 2003 I have obtained my Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, with a thesis on representing, disambiguating and reasoning with plurals in natural language understanding applications.
As the project manager of REWERSE my main goal is to provide a co-operative and efficient management support for the project and its over 100 members. I am mainly responsible for the financial and administrative management of the project, for monitoring, assessing and disseminating the achievements of the project to the European Commission and to the interested public, for contributing to diverse public relation activities, for co-operations with other projects and for organizing project events, scientific workshops or other events.
My current research interest is to apply controlled natural language as a user-friendly interface to Semantic Web applications. This relates to my former research in the the areas of theoretical and computational linguistics, in particular computational semantics, plural semantics, controlled natural language and reasoning in natural language.
From 1988 to 1994 I studied Theoretical Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Konstanz, Germany, where I graduated as M.A. in October 1994. Part of that time I worked as a student researcher in the project "Interaktion von Wort- und Satzsemantik". From October 1994 to October 1995 I completed a Postgraduate Programme at the Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh, UK where I graduated as M.Sc. in Cognitive Science and Natural Language. From November 1995 to December 1996 I worked as a research scientist at IBM Heidelberg in the machine translation project Verbmobil. From February 1997 to January 2004 I was a research associate and Ph.D.student in the Requirements Engineering Research Group at the Department of Information Technology of the University of Zurich working in the project Attempto: Controlled English as a Specification Language. I have obtained my Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics in December 2003 with the thesis "Plural Semantics for Natural Language Understanding - A Computational Proof-Theoretic Approach". Since March 2004 I have been working as the project manager of the European FP6 Research Project REWERSE (REasoning on the WEb with Rules and SEmantics).
My detailed CV (in German) can be found here.
F. Bry and U. Schwertel, Internet intelligenter - Das Europäische Projekt REWERSE entwickelt regelbasierte Technologien für das Semantische Netz, IM - Fachzeitschrift für Information Management & Consulting 22 (1), 85-94, March 2007. [IMC]
J.J. Alferes, J. Bailey, W. May, U. Schwertel (Eds.), Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning, 4th International Workshop, PPSWR 2006, Budva, Montenegro, June 10-11, 2006, Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4187, 2006. [LNCS]
U. Schwertel, Dagstuhl Seminar 05731 Executive Summary - Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning (PPSWR'05), Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, 2005. [PDF]
S. Berger, F. Bry, B. Lorenz, H. J. Ohlbach, P. Patrânjan, S. Schaffert, U. Schwertel, and S. Spranger, Reasoning on the Web: Language Prototypes and Perspectives, Proceedings of the European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantics and Digital Media Technology (EWIMT 2004), London, 2004. [PDF]
U. Schwertel, Plural Semantics for Natural Language Understanding-A Computational Proof-Theoretic Approach, Ph.D. Thesis, Faculty of Arts, University of Zurich, 2003. [PDF | Abstract]
N. E. Fuchs, U. Schwertel, Reasoning in Attempto Controlled English, Proceedings of the Workshop on Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning (PPSWR 2003), Mumbai, India, 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, 2003. [PDF]
U. Schwertel, Controlling Plural Ambiguities in Attempto Controlled English. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Controlled Language Applications. Seattle, Washington, 2000. [PDF]
N. E. Fuchs, U. Schwertel, S. Torge, A Natural Language Front-End to Model Generation, In Journal of Language and Computation, Volume 1, Number 2, 199-214, December 2000. [Postscript | PDF]
N. E. Fuchs, U. Schwertel, S. Torge, Controlled Natural Language Can Replace First-Order Logic, Proceedings ASE '99, 14th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Cocoa Beach, Florida, October 12 - 15, 1999. (Short version of "A Natural Language Front-End to Automatic Verification and Validation of Specifications") [Postscript | PDF]
N. E. Fuchs, U. Schwertel, R. Schwitter, Attempto Controlled English - Not Just Another Logic Specification Language, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1559, Springer, 1999. [PDF]
R. Schwitter, N. E. Fuchs, U. Schwertel, Attempto - Controlled English (ACE) for Software Specifications, Poster presentation by U. Schwertel at CLAW 98, Second International Workshop on Controlled Language Applications, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, May 1998. [PDF]
N. E. Fuchs, U. Schwertel, R. Schwitter, Attempto - Englisch als (formale) Spezifikationssprache, in: F. Bry, B. Freitag, D. Seipel (eds.), Proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop on Logic Programming WLP '97, Munich, September 1997.
with B. Abb et. al., Syntaktisch-semantische Verarbeitung und Übersetzung gesprochener Sprache - zwei Szenarien. KI 11(4): 60-64, 1997. [DBLP Entry]
REWERSE Deliverables available at http://rewerse.net/publications.html.
N. E. Fuchs, S. Höfler, K. Kaljurand, T. Kuhn, G. Schneider, and U. Schwertel, Extended Discourse Representation Structures in Attempto Controlled English, Technical Report ifi-2006.07, University of Zurich, 2006. [PDF]
N. E. Fuchs, S. Höfler, K. Kaljurand, G. Schneider, and U Schwertel, Extended Discourse Representation Structures in Attempto Controlled English, Technical Report ifi-2005.8, University of Zurich, 2005. [PDF]
N. E. Fuchs, U. Schwertel, Reasoning in Attempto Controlled English, Technical Report, IFI, University of Zurich, July 2002. [PDF | Demo]
N. E. Fuchs, U. Schwertel, S. Torge, A Natural Language Front-End to Automatic Verification and Validation of Specifications, Technical Report PMS-FB-1999-5, LMU München, 1999. (Short version: "Controlled Natural Language Can Replace First-Order Logic") [Abstract | Postscript]
N. E. Fuchs, U. Schwertel, R. Schwitter, Attempto Controlled English (ACE), Language Manual, Version 3.0, Technical Report ifi-99.03, University of Zurich, August 1999. [PDF]
U. Schwertel, Plurals, Ambiguity and Underspecification. M.Sc. Thesis, Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 1995.
U. Schwertel, Probleme der Pluralsemantik, Arbeitspapier 58, Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz, 1993. [PDF]
