Personal profile
Fields of Science
- 6121 Languages
- 615 History and Archaeology
- 113 Computer and information sciences
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Semi-Automatic Annotation of Babylonian Cuneiform Texts
Alstola, T., Sahala, A., Valk, J. & Ong, M., 6 Mar 2026, In: Journal of open humanities data. 12, 41, p. 1-13 13 p., 41.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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EvaCun 2025 Shared Task: Lemmatization and Token Prediction in Akkadian and Sumerian using LLMs
Gordin, S., Sahala, A., Spencer, S. & Klein, S., 4 May 2025, Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Ancient Language Processing. Anderson, A., Gordin, S., Li, B., Liu, Y., Passarotti, M. C. & Sprugnoli, R. (eds.). Stroudsburg: The Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 164-172 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
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Neural Models for Lemmatization and POS-Tagging of Earlier and Late Egyptian (Supporting Hieroglyphic Input) and Demotic
Sahala, A. & Lincke, E.-S., 4 May 2025, Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Ancient Language Processing. Anderson, A., Gordin, S., Li, B., Liu, Y., Passarotti, M. C. & Sprugnoli, R. (eds.). Stroudsburg: The Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 77–82 6 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
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On the Phonotactics of /r/ in Sumerian
Sahala, A., Apr 2025, In: NABU. : Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires. no 1 (mars) / 2025, p. 5-8 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Neural Lemmatization and POS-tagging models for Coptic, Demotic and Earlier Egyptian
Sahala, A. & Lincke, E.-S., 15 Aug 2024, Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Machine Learning for Ancient Languages (ML4AL 2024). Pavlopoulos, J., Sommerschield, T. & Assael, et al., Y. (eds.). Kerrville: The Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 87-97 11 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
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Projects
- 5 Finished
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FIN CLARIA: FIN-CLARIAH - language resources & infra
Linden, K. (Project manager), Tolonen, M. (Project manager), Axelson, E. (Participant), Dieckmann, U. (Participant), Dyster, W. (Participant), Jauhiainen, T. (Participant), Kalliokoski, T. J. (Participant), Kettunen, H. (Participant), Lennes, M. (Participant), Niemi, J. (Participant), Paakki, H. (Participant), Piitulainen, J. (Participant), Rosson, D. E. (Participant), Rueter, J. (Participant), Sahala, A. (Participant), Suni, A. (Participant), Turunen, R. J. (Participant), Vaara, V. (Participant), Valosaari, S. V. (Participant), Vazquez , R. (Participant), Vesalainen, A. J. K. (Participant) & Wang, R. (Participant)
Academy of Finland, Suomen Akatemia Projektilaskutus
01/01/2024 → 31/12/2025
Project: Research Council of Finland: Research infrastructure
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ANEE: ANEE Team 1: Digital Humanities Approaches
Svärd, S. (Principal Investigator), Linden, K. (Participant), Bach, J. (Participant), Jauhiainen, T. (Participant), Jauhiainen, H. (Participant), Sahala, A. (Participant), Konstantopoulos, G. (Participant), Fink, S. (Participant), Zaia, S. (Participant), Luukko, M. I. (Participant), Bennett, E. R. (Participant), Alstola, T. (Participant), Vanderstraeten, E. (Participant), Autere, K. (Participant), Giessler, J. (Participant), Debourse, C. H. I. (Participant), Tambs, L. (Participant), Valk, J. (Participant), Uotila, R. (Participant) & Jones, C. W. (Participant)
01/01/2018 → 31/12/2025
Project: Research project
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ANEE: Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires
Silverman, J. M. (Principal Investigator), Svärd, S. (Project manager), Lahelma, A. (Principal Investigator), Nikki, N. (Participant), Töyräänvuori, J. (Participant), Jokiranta, J. (Participant), Laine, L. (Participant), Kletter, R. (Participant), Bonnie, R. (Participant), Thomas, S. (Participant), Holmqvist-Sipilä, E. (Participant), Kouki, P. (Participant), Wasmuth, M. (Participant), Wallis, C. (Participant), Lorenzon, M. (Participant), Jauhiainen, H. (Participant), Jauhiainen, T. (Participant), Alstola, T. (Participant), Bach, J. (Participant), Fink, S. (Participant), Konstantopoulos, G. (Participant), Zaia, S. (Participant), Sahala, A. (Participant), Miettunen, P. H. (Participant), Avneri Meir, R. (Participant), Aissaoui, A. I. (Participant), Arpe, O. P. (Participant), Luukko, M. I. (Participant), Kovanen, H. (Participant), Linden, K. (Participant), Bennett, E. R. (Participant), Saari, S. (Participant), Vanderstraeten, E. (Participant), Autere, K. (Participant), Debourse, C. H. I. (Participant), Kailamäki, U. (Participant), Kautonen, S. K. (Participant), Spunaugle, A. (Participant), Tambs, L. (Participant), Jones, C. W. (Participant), Wijnsma, U. Z. (Participant), Valk, J. (Participant), Gheorghiade, P. (Participant), Autere, K. (Participant), Uotila, R. (Participant), Reinikainen, S. J. J. (Participant), Cutillas Victoria, B. (Participant), Holappa, M. (Participant), Kletter, R. (Participant), Smith, S. L. (Participant) & Pfoh, E. (Participant)
01/01/2018 → 31/12/2025
Project: Research project
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Deep Learning and Semantic domains in Akkadian texts
Svärd, S. (Project manager) & Sahala, A. (Participant)
01/01/2017 → 31/12/2020
Project: University of Helsinki Three-Year Research Project
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Semantic Domains in Akkadian Texts
Linden, K. (Project manager), Alstola, T. (Participant), Jauhiainen, H. (Participant), Jauhiainen, T. (Participant), Sahala, A. (Participant), Svärd, S. (Participant) & Zaia, S. (Participant)
01/09/2016 → 31/08/2020
Project: Research project
Datasets
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Fear in Akkadian Texts
Svärd, S. (Creator), Alstola, T. (Creator), Jauhiainen, H. (Creator), Sahala, A. (Creator) & Linden, K. (Creator), Zenodo, 2020
Dataset
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Aššur and His Friends: A Statistical Analysis of Neo-Assyrian Texts
Alstola, T. (Creator), Zaia, S. (Creator), Sahala, A. (Creator), Jauhiainen, H. (Creator), Svärd, S. (Creator) & Linden, K. (Creator), Zenodo, 2019
Dataset
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Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus, Korp Version, May 2019
Jauhiainen, H. (Creator), Sahala, A. (Creator) & Alstola, T. (Creator), Kielipankki, Jun 2019
http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2019060602
Dataset
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ANEE lexical portal of Akkadian: fastText
Jauhiainen, H. (Creator), Sahala, A. (Creator), Alstola, T. (Creator), Hardwick, S. (Creator), Jauhiainen, T. (Creator), Linden, K. (Creator) & Svärd, S. (Creator), Helsingin yliopisto, 2021
http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2021060103
Dataset
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ANEE lexical portal of Akkadian: PMI
Sahala, A. (Creator), Jauhiainen, H. (Creator), Alstola, T. (Creator), Hardwick, S. (Creator), Jauhiainen, T. (Creator), Linden, K. (Creator) & Svärd, S. (Creator), Helsingin yliopisto, 2021
http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2021060101
Dataset
Activities
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Free Univ Berlin, Free University of Berlin
Jauhiainen, T. (Visiting researcher), Jauhiainen, H. (Visiting researcher) & Sahala, A. (Visiting researcher)
16 Mar 2026 → 29 Mar 2026Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Academic visit to other institution
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Neural Models for Lemmatization and POS-Tagging of Earlier and Late Egyptian (Supporting Hieroglyphic Input) and Demotic
Sahala, A. (Speaker)
4 May 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Computational Approaches to Sumerian Unorthographic Texts
Sahala, A. (Speaker)
10 Apr 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Words /iri/ and /uru/ and the Origins of Emesal
Sahala, A. (Speaker)
8 Jul 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Press/Media
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In the Spotlight: University of Helsinki
Svärd, S. S. & Sahala, A. J. A.
15/09/2017
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media