Research Output per year
Personal profile
Description of research and teaching
Tero Alstola is a scholar of Near Eastern cultures and languages, interested in studying ancient history with digital methods. His previous research has focused on migration and immigrants in Babylonian society in the first millennium BCE. He is currently working in a project which studies the Akkadian language using computational methods from language technology. The project aims to enhance the understanding of a dead language and to develop methods which can be used to study other extinct and living languages with small text corpora.
Fields of Science
- 6121 Languages
- Language technology
- 615 History and Archaeology
- Assyriology
- 614 Theology
- Old Testament Studies
Publications 2012 2020
Judeans in Babylonia: A Study of Deportees in the Sixth and Fifth Centuries BCE
Alstola, T., 2020, Leiden: Brill. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East; vol. 109)Research output: Book/Report › Book
Open Access
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Aššur and His Friends: A Statistical Analysis of Neo-Assyrian Texts
Alstola, T., Zaia, S., Sahala, A., Jauhiainen, H., Svärd, S. & Linden, K., 2019, In : Journal of Cuneiform Studies. 71, p. 159-180 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
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Language and Dialect Identification of Cuneiform Texts
Jauhiainen, T. S., Jauhiainen, H. A., Alstola, T. & Linden, B. K. J., 30 Apr 2019, Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2019) . Stroudsburg: The Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 89-98 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
File
Judeans in Babylonia: A Study of Deportees in the Sixth and Fifth Centuries BCE
Alstola, T., 17 Jan 2018, Helsinki: University of Helsinki. 286 p.Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
Open Access
File
Kohti juutalaisuutta: Babylonian pakkosiirtolaisuus muutosvoimana
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › General public
Projects 2009 2025
Semantic Domains in Akkadian Texts
Linden, K., Alstola, T., Jauhiainen, H., Jauhiainen, T., Sahala, A., Svärd, S. & Zaia, S.
01/09/2016 → 31/08/2020
Project: Research project
ANEE: Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires
Silverman, J. M., Svärd, S., Lahelma, A., Nikki, N., Töyräänvuori, J., Jokiranta, J., Laine, L., Kletter, R., Bonnie, R., Thomas, S., Holmqvist-Sipilä, E., Kouki, P., Wasmuth, M., Wallis, C., Lorenzon, M., Jauhiainen, H., Jauhiainen, T., Alstola, T., Bach, J., Fink, S., Konstantopoulos, G., Zaia, S., Sahala, A., Miettunen, P. H., Avneri Meir, R., Aissaoui, A. I., Arpe, O. P., Luukko, M. I., Kovanen, H., Linden, K., Bennett, E. R., Saari, S. & Vanderstraeten, E.
01/01/2018 → 31/12/2025
Project: Research project
CSTT: Centre of Excellence in Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions
Nissinen, M., Aejmelaeus, A., Weissenberg von, H., Pakkala, J., Jokiranta, J., Kletter, R., Mattila, R., de Hulster, I., Silverman, J. M., Svärd, S., Valkama, K., Alstola, T., Saarelainen, K., Saari, S., Tapiola, E., Tynjä, T., Töyräänvuori, J., Perttilä, E., Kujanpää, K., Liljeström, M., Orpana, J., Pulkkinen, M., Seppänen, C., Tucker, M., Müller, R., Voitila, A., Borchardt, F., Kauhanen, T., Pajunen, M., Hakola, R., Latvus, K., Bonnie, R., Tervanotko, H., Uusimäki, E., Antin, K., Vanonen, H., Mäkipelto, V., Nommik, U., Yli-Karjanmaa, S., Penner, J., Longacre, D., Silverman, J. M., Tekoniemi, T., Dixon, H., Ito, S., Huotari, P., Keady, J., Fink, S., Konstantopoulos, G., Zaia, S., Nõmmik, A. & Laine, L.
01/01/2014 → 31/12/2019
Project: Research project
ANEE: ANEE Team 1: Digital Humanities Approaches
Svärd, S., Linden, K., Bach, J., Jauhiainen, T., Jauhiainen, H., Sahala, A., Konstantopoulos, G., Fink, S., Zaia, S., Luukko, M. I., Bennett, E. R., Alstola, T. & Vanderstraeten, E.
01/01/2018 → 31/12/2025
Project: Research project
Society and Religion in the Ancient Near East
Nissinen, M., Kletter, R., Mattila, R., de Hulster, I., Silverman, J. M., Svärd, S., Valkama, K., Alstola, T., Saarelainen, K., Saari, S., Tapiola, E., Tynjä, T., Töyräänvuori, J., Dixon, H. & Ito, S.
01/01/2014 → 31/12/2019
Project: Research project
Datasets
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
Chronological Distribution of the Documents from Yahudu and Its Surroundings
Alstola, T. (Creator), Zenodo, 2019
Dataset
Prosopographical Database of Judeans in Babylonia (outside Yahudu and the Murašû Archive)
Alstola, T. (Creator), Zenodo, 2019
Dataset
Prosopographical Database of Judeans in the Murašû Archive
Alstola, T. (Creator), Zenodo, 2019
Dataset
Activities 2012 2019
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Tuukka Kauhanen (Participant), Elisa Uusimäki (Participant), Tero Alstola (Participant), Patrik Jansson (Participant), Gina Konstantopoulos (Participant)11 May 2019
Activity: Other activity types › Types for other activities - Other
Annual Meeting of the Finnish Oriental Society
Tero Alstola (Speaker: Presenter)17 Apr 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Talks
University of Basel
Tero Alstola (Visiting lecturer)3 Jun 2019 → 7 Jun 2019
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Academic visit to other institution
The Return from the Exile in the Light of Living Conditions in Babylonia
Tero Alstola (Invited speaker)5 Jun 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Minorities in Mesopotamia Workshop
Tero Alstola (Speaker: Presenter)9 Apr 2018 → 11 Apr 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Press / Media
Juudan kansa kesti Baabelin virtain varsilla
25/01/2018
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media