Anastasia Volyando

I’m a Linguistics & English Literature student focused on AI & Language, psycholinguistics, syntax, and NLP. I build Python-based linguistic analysis and experimental research projects to study syntactic ambiguity and human vs. AI language processing—especially how large language models interpret meaning, ambiguity, and sentence structure.

As a Student Researcher at Bar-Ilan University (2024–present), I’m exploring why LLMs often struggle with garden-path sentence interpretation and whether this connects to limitations in syntactic reanalysis mechanisms. I’ve also developed a Garden-Path Reading & Interpretation Simulator with interactive word-by-word tasks and SQLite-based result storage, plus a sociolinguistic marker detection tool for rule-based stylistic variation in written language. Alongside this, I’ve conducted research on morphological decoding in L2 English reading among native Chinese speakers and I’m currently working on French syntax and prosody research projects.