John A. Bateman
John Arnold Bateman is a British linguist and semiotician known for his research on natural language generation and multimodality. 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. 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.Multimodality and genre: A foundation for the systematic analysis of multimodal documents.Multimodal film analysis: How films mean.Multimodality: Foundations, research and analysis – A problem-oriented introduction.Articles and reports
- Bateman, J. A., Kasper, R. T., Moore, J. D., & Whitney, R. A.. A general organization of knowledge for natural language processing: The penman upper model. Technical report, USC Information Sciences Institute.
- Bateman, J. A.. Enabling technology for multilingual natural language generation: the KPML development environment. Natural Language Engineering, 3, 15–55.
- Bateman, J. A., Kamps, T., Kleinz, J., & Reichenberger, K.. Towards constructive text, diagram, and layout generation for information presentation. Computational Linguistics, 27, 409–449.
- Bateman, J. A., Hois, J., Ross, R., & Tenbrink, T.. A linguistic ontology of space for natural language processing. Artificial Intelligence, 174, 1027–1071.