User:Martinwheatman/sandbox

Dr. Wheatman is interested in languages, compilers and the process of creating software. He obtained his Bachelors degree, BSc in Computer Science, from the Hatfield Polytechnic in 1986. He joined the British Computer Society as a Chartered Engineer in 1992. In 1993, he enrolled at Lancaster University to study Object Management Systems for his Masters, MPhil in Computer Science, which he was awarded in 1999. At the end of this journey he took some time to think about the interface to an OMS, with respect to the relationship between the Relational model and Structured Query Languages. Because an OMS models real world entities, rather reducing its representation to a series of tables, the interface needed to be related to natural (i.e. context dependent) languages, rather than context-free programming languages, like SQL.

In 2002, Dr. Wheatman discovered the principles of Informatics had been described in the late C19th and early C20th, in the Semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce and and Semiology of Ferdinand de Saussure. Then, in 2005, he enrolled at the University of Reading in the School for a PhD in Computer Science to study the links between Semiotics and Software development.

Following his PhD, in 2011, he set about applying this research to the problem of NLP. At the time, the notion of a chatbot, the Turing Test, and the maintenance of a conversation was key to defining intelligence. Dr. Wheatman used his interpretation of translation and transformation in the processing of utterances. This led to the creation of Enguage in 2013.

Dr. Wheatman lives in the Ribble Valley, UK, with his long term partner and their four children.