John Arnold Bateman (born 1957) is a British

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

and

semiotician Semiotics ( ) is the systematic study of sign processes and the communication of meaning. In semiotics, a sign is defined as anything that communicates intentional and unintentional meaning or feelings to the sign's interpreter. Semiosis is an ...

known for his research on

natural language generation Natural language generation (NLG) is a software process that produces natural language output. A widely cited survey of NLG methods describes NLG as "the subfield of artificial intelligence and computational linguistics that is concerned with the ...

and

multimodality Multimodality is the application of multiple literacies within one medium. Multiple literacies or "modes" contribute to an audience's understanding of a composition. Everything from the placement of images to the organization of the content to ...

. He has worked at

Kyoto University , or , is a National university, national research university in Kyoto, Japan. Founded in 1897, it is one of the former Imperial Universities and the second oldest university in Japan. The university has ten undergraduate faculties, eighteen gra ...

, the

USC USC may refer to: Education United States * Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, Santurce, Puerto Rico * University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina ** University of South Carolina System, a state university system of South Carolina * ...

Information Sciences Institute The USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI) is a component of the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering, and specializes in research and development in information processing, computing, and communications techn ...

, the German National Research Center for Information Technology,

Saarland University Saarland University (, ) is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in six faculties that cover all major ...

, and the

University of Stirling The University of Stirling (abbreviated as Stir or Shruiglea, in post-nominals; ) is a public university in Stirling, Scotland, founded by a royal charter in 1967. It is located in the Central Belt of Scotland, built within the walled Airth ...

. he is Professor of English Applied Linguistics at the

University of Bremen The University of Bremen () is a public university in Bremen, Germany, with approximately 18,400 students from 117 countries. Its 12 faculties offer more than 100 degree programs. The University of Bremen has been among the top 50 European rese ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

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

Systemic functional linguistics Linguists from England Alumni of the University of Edinburgh British semioticians Linguists of English 20th-century British linguists 21st-century British linguists 1957 births Living people {{linguist-stub