John A. Bateman Explained

Birth Place:	London, United Kingdom
Education:	Edinburgh University (Ph.D. - Artificial Intelligence)
Known For:	Genre and Multimodality (GeM) framework
Notable Works:	Multimodality and genre: A foundation for the systematic analysis of multimodal documents
Workplaces:	University of Bremen
Discipline:	Linguistics, Semiotics, Ontology

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

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.

Notes and 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. -13:978-0-230-00256-2 (hardback); -10: 0-230-00256-0 (paperback). Visual Communication. en-US. 9. 2. 241–245. 10.1177/1470357210369887. 144180230. 1470-3572.
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. 10.1515/mc-2012-0100. 62050579. 2230-6587.
3. Web site: Prof. John A. Bateman (PhD) . Universität Bremen . 2023-02-12 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230209234337/https://www.uni-bremen.de/fb-10/fachbereich/wissenschaftlerinnen-wissenschaftler/professorinnen-und-professoren/prof-john-bateman . 2023-02-09.