Bob Foster - Brief Biography

Hi, I'm Bob Foster.

I live in Taunton in Somerset, United Kingdom.

I'm a Training Engineer for Western Power Training, and have developed many learning facilitation systems within the company.

I have also developed a simple web-based version of one of these systems: Demo of Multiple Choice Question Delivery system which you can try by clicking this link.

I am also studying for a Phd in Computational Linguistics at Wolverhampton University.

Publications:

  * Improve the output from a MCQ test item generator using Statistical NLP (Paper)
  * Lexifying Field Strength (Poster)
  * Adapting Multiple-Choice Item-writing guidelines to an industrial context (Paper)
  * Cataphoric Lexicalisation (Paper)
  * Cataphoric Lexicalisation (Poster)
  * Improving the Output from Software that Generates Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) Test Items Automatically using Controlled Rhetorical Structure Theory. In Proceedings of RANLP 2009 Student Conference, Borovets, Bulgaria, September 2009. pp. 29-34
  * Controlled Rhetorical Structure Theory (poster)

  * Foster, R.M. (2009): Controlled Specific Learning Objectives. In Proceedings of ACORN Graduate Conference, Aston University, Bulgaria, May 2009.
  * Controlled Specific Learning Objectives (poster)

Hobbies

I teach Clarinet and Saxophone from home and my other hobbies are writing Short Stories and Novels and Playing Bridge.

I have also created some Music CDs which have been used as background music on training videos produced at work

If you wish to contact me, I prefer to work with Emails since I am an early riser. My address is bob@fosterfinch.co.uk.

Thanks for visiting my site, and I hope you find something of interest here.