Anastasia Philipps (born Kobzeva)

4123, Ole-Johan Dahls hus

Gaustadalléen 23B

0373 Oslo, Norway

I am a postdoctoral researcher in natural language processing at the Univesity of Oslo working on generative approaches to event extraction. I am affiliated with the Language Technology Group.

I have a PhD in computational psycholinguistics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), where I was supervised by Dave Kush and co-supervised by Tal Linzen. For my PhD-project, I conducted behavioral experiments and trained several statistical and neural language models to explore their ability to learn a specific linguistic phenomenon in Norwegian (filler-gap dependencies and island constraints on them). My dissertation explored what these models and their successes and failures can reveal about the nature of human language learning and the input data which humans and models learn from.

I hold a joint Research Master’s degree in Clinical Linguistics (EMCL+) and a Bachelor’s degree in Computational Linguistics from NRU HSE. My research experience also includes working as a research assistant at the Center for Language and Brain at NRU HSE and the Eye-Tracking and Language Processing Lab at CUNY. In my research, I am committed to adhering to open science practices.

Selected publications

Article

Learning filler-gap dependencies with neural language models: Testing island sensitivity in Norwegian and English

Anastasia Kobzeva, Suhas Arehalli, Tal Linzen, and Dave Kush

Journal of Memory and Language, 2025

Bib HTML Supp

@article{kobzevaEtAl2025,
  title = {
      {Learning filler-gap dependencies with neural language models: Testing island sensitivity in Norwegian and English}
    },
  author = {Kobzeva, Anastasia and Arehalli, Suhas and Linzen, Tal and Kush, Dave},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {Journal of Memory and Language},
  volume = {144},
  pages = {104663},
  issn = {0749-596X},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2025.104663},
}

Article

Acquiring Constraints on Filler-Gap Dependencies from Structural Collocations: Assessing a Computational Learning Model of Island-insensitivity in Norwegian

Anastasia Kobzeva, and Dave Kush

Language Acquisition, 2025

Bib HTML Supp

@article{kobzevaKush2025,
  author = {Kobzeva, Anastasia and Kush, Dave},
  journal = {Language Acquisition},
  title = {Acquiring Constraints on Filler-Gap Dependencies from Structural Collocations: {A}ssessing a Computational Learning Model of Island-insensitivity in {N}orwegian},
  year = {2025},
  pages = {1--44},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2024.2440340},
  publisher = {Routledge},
}

Article

Grammar and Expectation in Active Dependency Resolution: Experimental and Modeling Evidence from Norwegian

Anastasia Kobzeva, and Dave Kush

Cognitive Science, 2024

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@article{kobzevaKush2024,
  author = {Kobzeva, Anastasia and Kush, Dave},
  journal = {Cognitive Science},
  title = {Grammar and Expectation in Active Dependency Resolution: {E}xperimental and Modeling Evidence from {N}orwegian},
  year = {2024},
  number = {10},
  pages = {e13501},
  volume = {48},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13501},
  publisher = {Wiley Online Library},
}