Prof. John A. Bateman (PhD)

Werdegang

• born 1957, London, England
• working in Natural Language Generation (NLG) since 1982 , on Multimodality since the early 1990s, and film and visual narrative since around 2005
• Ph.D. (Artificial Intelligence) from Edinburgh University, 1986
• worked in NLG projects at Kyoto University (Prof. M. Nagao), USC/Information Sciences Institute (Penman Project), and the German National Research Center for Information Technology/IPSI (Komet Project: project leader)
• translation science at the University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken
• lecturer in Computational and Descriptive Linguistics at the University of Stirling, Scotland
• currently Professor of English Applied Linguistics at the University of Bremen within the Departments of English and Linguistics