John A. Bateman

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] As of 2023,^[update] he is Professor of English Applied Linguistics at the University of Bremen in Germany.^[3]

John A. Bateman
Born	1957 (age 67–68) 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.