Research output per year
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
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Fear in Akkadian Texts: New Digital Perspectives on Lexical Semantics
Svärd, S., Alstola, T., Jauhiainen, H., Sahala, A. & Linden, K., 2021, The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Hsu, S-W. & Llop-Raduà, J. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 470-502 (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East; vol. 116).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Babylonialainen kronikka Nebukadnessar II:n valtakaudelta
Alstola, T., 2020, Tekstejä babylonialais- ja persialaisajan Lähi-idästä. Töyräänvuori, J. & Valkama, K. (eds.). Helsinki: Suomen eksegeettinen seura, p. 33-38 6 p. (Suomen eksegeettisen seuran julkaisuja; no. 119).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Johdanto nuolenpääteksteihin
Alstola, T., 2020, Tekstejä babylonialais- ja persialaisajan Lähi-idästä. Töyräänvuori, J. & Valkama, K. (eds.). Helsinki: Suomen eksegeettinen seura, p. 29-32 4 p. (Suomen eksegeettisen seuran julkaisuja; no. 119).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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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 › Scientific › peer-review
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Kauppiasperhettä koskevia asiakirjoja Sipparista
Alstola, T., 2020, Tekstejä babylonialais- ja persialaisajan Lähi-idästä. Töyräänvuori, J. & Valkama, K. (eds.). Helsinki: Suomen eksegeettinen seura, p. 100-106 7 p. (Suomen eksegeettisen seuran julkaisuja; no. 119).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Projects
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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
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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., Autere, K., Debourse, C. H. I., Kailamäki, U., Kautonen, S. K. & Spunaugle, A.
01/01/2018 → 31/12/2025
Project: Research project
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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
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Empire and Village: Imperial Control Strategies and Local Responses in the Babylonian Countryside
01/12/2020 → 30/11/2023
Project: Research project
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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., Autere, K., Giessler, J. & Debourse, C. H. I.
01/01/2018 → 31/12/2025
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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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
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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
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Chronological Distribution of the Documents from Yahudu and Its Surroundings
Alstola, T. (Creator), Zenodo, 2019
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Activities
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Academy Club of Young Academy Finland
Tero Alstola (Speaker: Presenter)
26 Jan 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Talks
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ANEE Annual Meeting 2020
Tero Alstola (Speaker: Presenter), Heidi Jauhiainen (Speaker: Presenter) & Saana Svärd (Speaker: Presenter)
19 Aug 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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Public lecture ”Miten yhteiskunnat saivat alkunsa? Kulttuurimme juuret muinaisessa Lähi-idässä”
Tero Alstola (Speaker: Presenter)
27 Feb 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Talks
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Muinaisen Lähi-idän imperiumit: Suomen Akatemian huippuyksikkö
Tero Alstola (Speaker)
21 Sep 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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ANEE Annual Meeting 2020
Tero Alstola (Poster Presentation)
18 Aug 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Press / Media
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Babylon – synnin, paheiden ja Hammurabin kaupunki
16/01/2020
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Juudan kansa kesti Baabelin virtain varsilla
25/01/2018
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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