Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Description of research and teaching
Dr. Tero Alstola is a scholar of Near Eastern cultures and languages interested in studying ancient history with digital tools. His dissertation focused on migration and immigrants in Babylonian society in the first millennium BCE. Afterwards, he has worked in a multidisciplinary research team that developed and applied language technological methods and network analysis to the study of Akkadian cuneiform texts. His current project investigates the relationships between the Babylonian and Persian empires and the rural population, focusing on the ways the empires tried to govern the countryside and the responses of the rural population to these attempts.
Fields of Science
- 615 History and Archaeology
- Assyriology
- 6121 Languages
- Language technology
- 614 Theology
- Old Testament Studies
International and National Collaboration
Publications and projects within past five years.
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Fast(Text) Analysis of Mesopotamian Divine Names
Jauhiainen, H. & Alstola, T., Apr 2023, The Ancient World Goes Digital: Case Studies on Archaeology, Texts, Online Publishing, Digital Archiving, and Preservation. Bigot Juloux, V., Di Ludovico, A. & Matskevich, S. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 139-171 33 p. (Digital Biblical Studies; vol. 6).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Lemmatizing and POS-tagging Akkadian with BabyLemmatizer and Dictionary-Based Post-Correction
Sahala, A., Alstola, T., Valk, J. & Linden, K., 2023, Selected papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2022. Erjavec, T. & Eskevich, M. (eds.). Utrecht: CLARIN ERIC, p. 111–119 9 p. (Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings; vol. 198).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
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Sources at the End of the Cuneiform Era
Alstola, T., Corò, P., Da Riva, R., Fink, S., Jursa, M., Kottsieper, I., Lang, M., Monroe, M. W., Pearce, L. E., Pirngruber, R., Ruffing, K. & Svärd, S., 16 May 2023, In: Studia Orientalia Electronica. 11, 2, p. 5–29 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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A Social Network of the Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
Jauhiainen, H. & Alstola, T., 17 Mar 2022, In: Journal of open humanities data. 8, 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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BabyLemmatizer: A Lemmatizer and POS-tagger for Akkadian
Sahala, A., Alstola, T., Valk, J. & Linden, K., 2022, CLARIN Annual Conference Proceedings, 2022. Erjavec, T. & Eskevich, M. (eds.). Utrecht: CLARIN ERIC, p. 14–18 5 p. (CLARIN Annual Conference Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
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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., Tambs, L., Jones, C. W., Wijnsma, U. Z., Valk, J., Gheorghiade, P., Autere, K., Uotila, R., Reinikainen, S. J. J., Cutillas Victoria, B., Holappa, M., Kletter, R., Smith, S. L. & Pfoh, E.
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., 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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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., Tambs, L., Valk, J., Uotila, R. & Jones, C. W.
01/01/2018 → 31/12/2025
Project: Research project
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Empire and Village: Imperial Control Strategies and Local Responses in the Babylonian Countryside
SUOMEN AKATEMIA Vähäkylä Leena
01/12/2020 → 30/11/2023
Project: Adacemy of Finland: Postdoctoral Researcher
Datasets
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ANEE Lexical Networks v. 2.0 - the Dataset
Sahala, A. (Creator), Jauhiainen, H. (Creator), Alstola, T. (Creator), Hardwick, S. (Creator), Bennett, E. R. (Creator), Jauhiainen, T. (Creator), Svärd, S. (Creator) & Linden, K. (Creator), Zenodo, 29 Sep 2022
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ANEE Lexical Networks v. 2.0
Sahala, A. (Creator), Jauhiainen, H. (Creator), Alstola, T. (Creator), Hardwick, S. (Creator), Bennett, E. R. (Creator), Jauhiainen, T. (Creator), Linden, K. (Creator) & Svärd, S. (Creator), University of Helsinki, 29 Sep 2022
http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2022100301
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ANEE Lexical Portal - the Dataset
Jauhiainen, H. (Creator), Sahala, A. (Creator), Alstola, T. (Creator), Svärd, S. (Creator) & Linden, K. (Creator), Zenodo, 30 Mar 2021
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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
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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
Activities
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Networks in Ancient Near Eastern Empires
Tero Alstola (Speaker: Presenter) & Heidi Jauhiainen (Speaker: Presenter)
4 Feb 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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Eksegeettinen päivä 2022
Tero Alstola (Speaker: Presenter)
3 Feb 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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AMME seminar
Tero Alstola (Speaker: Presenter) & Adrianne Spunaugle (Speaker: Presenter)
22 Sep 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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Tutkimusmatkoja muinaiseen Lähi-itään
Tero Alstola (Speaker: Presenter)
25 Oct 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Talks
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Miesten kotailta
Tero Alstola (Speaker: Presenter)
14 Oct 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Talks
Press/Media
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10 faktaa maailman vanhimmista valtakunnista
15/12/2022
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Lähi-idän yksinvaltias Nebukadnessar II osasi käyttää propagandaa suvereenisti hyväkseen
Martti Nissinen & Tero Alstola
24/05/2022
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Olut oli sivistyksen alku – varhaisimmat kirjoitetut tekstit olivat kuitteja olutannoksista
08/04/2022
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Jerusalemin temppelistä Baabelin torniin
26/03/2021
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media