John A. Bateman

John Arnold Bateman (born 1957 in London) is a British linguist and semiotician known for his research on natural language generation and multimodality.[1][2] He has worked at Kyoto University, at the USC Information Sciences Institute, at the German National Research Center for Information Technology, at Saarland University, and at the University of Stirling.[3] He is currently Professor of English Applied Linguistics at the University of Bremen, Germany.[3]

John A. Bateman
Born	1957 (age 63–64) London, United Kingdom
Known for	Genre and Multimodality (GeM) framework
Academic background
Education	Edinburgh University (Ph.D. - Artificial Intelligence)
Academic work
Discipline	Linguistics, Semiotics, Ontology
Sub-discipline	Natural language generation Multimodality
Institutions	University of Bremen
Notable works	Multimodality and genre: A foundation for the systematic analysis of multimodal documents

Key publications

Books

• Text generation and systemic-functional linguistics: experiences from English and Japanese (with Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen; Pinter, 1991).
• Multimodality and genre: A foundation for the systematic analysis of multimodal documents (Springer, 2008).
• Multimodal film analysis: How films mean (with Karl-Heinrich Schmidt; Routledge, 2012).
• Multimodality: Foundations, research and analysis – A problem-oriented introduction (with Janina Wildfeuer and Tuomo Hiippala; de Gruyter, 2017).

Articles and reports

• Bateman, J. A., Kasper, R. T., Moore, J. D., & Whitney, R. A. (1990). A general organization of knowledge for natural language processing: The penman upper model. Technical report, USC Information Sciences Institute.
• Bateman, J. A. (1997). Enabling technology for multilingual natural language generation: the KPML development environment. Natural Language Engineering, 3(1), 15-55.
• Bateman, J. A., Kamps, T., Kleinz, J., & Reichenberger, K. (2001). Towards constructive text, diagram, and layout generation for information presentation. Computational Linguistics, 27(3), 409-449.
• Bateman, J. A., Hois, J., Ross, R., & Tenbrink, T. (2010). A linguistic ontology of space for natural language processing. Artificial Intelligence, 174(14), 1027-1071.

References

1. Scott, Mary (May 2010). "Book Review: JOHN A BATEMAN, Multimodality and Genre: A Foundation for the Systematic Analysis of Multimodal Documents. Basingstoke, UK & New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008. pp.278. ISBN-13:978-0-230-00256-2 (hardback); ISBN-10: 0-230-00256-0 (paperback)". Visual Communication. 9 (2): 241–245. doi:10.1177/1470357210369887. ISSN 1470-3572. S2CID 144180230.
2. Metten, Thomas (2013). "Review Article: John A. Bateman and Karl-Heinrich Schmidt (2011). Multimodal Film Analysis: How Films Mean". Journal Multimodal Communication. 1 (2): 205–210. doi:10.1515/mc-2012-0100. ISSN 2230-6587. S2CID 62050579.
3. "Prof. Dr. phil. John A. Bateman". Universität Bremen. Retrieved 2020-01-25.