60 https://www.uni-bremen.de/fb-10/fachbereich/wissenschaftlerinnen-wissenschaftler/professorinnen-und-professoren-im-ruhestand/prof-john-bateman Prof. John A. Bateman (PhD) im Fachbereich 10 – Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften de Universität Bremen Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:34:55 +0200 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:34:55 +0200 Universität Bremen content-276707 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:43:54 +0100 https://www.uni-bremen.de/fb-10/fachbereich/wissenschaftlerinnen-wissenschaftler/professorinnen-und-professoren-im-ruhestand/prof-john-bateman#c276707 <ul> <li>born 1957, London, England</li> <li>working in Natural Language Generation (NLG) since 1982 , on Multimodality since the early 1990s, and film and visual narrative since around 2005</li> <li>Ph.D. (Artificial Intelligence) from <em>Edinburgh University</em>, 1986</li> <li>worked in NLG projects at <em>Kyoto University</em> (Prof. M. Nagao), <em>USC/Information Sciences Institute</em> (Penman Project), and the <em>German National Research Center for Information Technology/IPSI</em> (Komet Project: project leader)</li> <li>translation science at the University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken</li> <li>lecturer in Computational and Descriptive Linguistics at the <em>University of Stirling</em>, Scotland</li> <li>currently Professor of English Applied Linguistics at the <em>University of Bremen</em> within the Departments of English and Linguistics</li> </ul> Content content-276709 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:43:54 +0100 https://www.uni-bremen.de/fb-10/fachbereich/wissenschaftlerinnen-wissenschaftler/professorinnen-und-professoren-im-ruhestand/prof-john-bateman#c276709 <p>Main <strong>areas of interest and active research</strong> (with pointers to relevant papers, web information, etc.) include:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/anglistik/langpro/webspace/jb/info-pages/multi-root.htm">multimodal semiotics</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/anglistik/langpro/webspace/jb/info-pages/nlg-root.htm" target="_top">multilingual natural language generation and descriptions</a>,</li> <li>l<a href="http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/anglistik/ontology" target="_top">inguistically-motivated ontologies and their use in NLG</a>,</li> <li><a href="http://purl.org/net/gem" target="_top">the Genre and Multimodality project webpages: </a>multimodal corpora, synergies across modalities</li> <li><a href="http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/bitt/en/">the Bremen Institute for Transmedial Textuality Research (BItT)</a></li> </ul> <p>Bremen University central web administration unilaterally discontinued its support for homepages under the university's webdomain several years ago; for a reconstructed version with partially updated links, use: <a href="http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/anglistik/langpro/webspace/jb/zfn/index.html" target="_blank">Bateman Homepage</a> - beware of old links to the no longer existing homepage therefore...</p> Content content-276705 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:43:54 +0100 https://www.uni-bremen.de/fb-10/fachbereich/wissenschaftlerinnen-wissenschaftler/professorinnen-und-professoren-im-ruhestand/prof-john-bateman#c276705 <ul> <li><a href="http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/anglistik/langpro/webspace/jb/recent-bib.htm">Recent Publications</a></li> <li><a href="http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/searchbib/Ai/bateman?author=Bateman&maxnum=400">Full List of Publications can be retrieved here</a></li> </ul> Content