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.
Keywords
- 6121 Languages
- Language technology
- 615 History and Archaeology
- Assyriology
- 614 Theology
- Old Testament Studies
Publications 2012 2019
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: 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 › Monograph
Open Access
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Kohti juutalaisuutta: Babylonian pakkosiirtolaisuus muutosvoimana
Alstola, T., Silverman, J. M. & Alstola, T. (Translator), Oct 2018, Kiveen hakattu? Pyhät tekstit ja perinteet muutoksessa. Nissinen, M. & Vähäkylä, L. (eds.). Helsinki: Gaudeamus, (Tutkitusti).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › General public
Siirtolaisuus ja pakkosiirtolaisuus muinaisessa Lähi-idässä
Alstola, T., 2 Oct 2018, In : Lukemista Levantista. 3/2018Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › General public
Open Access
Judean Merchants in Babylonia and Their Participation in Long-Distance Trade
Alstola, T., Jun 2017, In : Welt des Orients. 47, 1, p. 25-51 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
File
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.
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
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
ERC Starting Grant project "By the Rivers of Babylon: New Perspectives on Second Temple Judaism from Cuneiform Texts"
Waerzeggers, C., Silverman, J. M., Alstola, T., Sonnevelt, R., Still, B., Stökl, J. & Wetter, A.
01/09/2009 → 31/08/2015
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
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
ASOR/EPHE-PSL European Symposium
Tero Alstola (Speaker: Presenter)4 Sep 2018 → 6 Sep 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Ancient Digital Humanities
Tero Alstola (Chair)6 Mar 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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
CSTT Annual Meeting 2018
Tero Alstola (Speaker: Presenter), Saana Svärd (Speaker: Presenter), Tuukka Kauhanen (Speaker: Presenter)9 Feb 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