--- title: "Aleksi Sahala — papers and cards" description: "Aleksi Sahala: 4 paper cards in the Research library (2020–2025), with what each paper is about, the ideas Mova took from it, and the co-authors." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aleksi-sahala/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aleksi-sahala/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Aleksi Sahala # Aleksi Sahala 4 paper cards in the Research library · 2020–2025 Aleksi Sahala wrote 4 of the papers Mova reads, in 2020–2025, most of them on [Akkadian and cuneiform NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/akkadian-cuneiform-nlp/), [Treebanks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/); often with [Krister Lindén](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/krister-linden/), [Antti Arppe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/antti-arppe/), [Miikka Silfverberg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/miikka-silfverberg/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5015516895) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4255-3872) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5015516895) · [90 citations](https://openalex.org/authors/A5015516895) · [48 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5015516895) — openalex-snapshot, 2026-10-14 The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Aleksi+Sahala) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Aleksi+Sahala) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Aleksi+Sahala) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Aleksi+Sahala) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/orcid-search/search?searchQuery=Aleksi+Sahala) Topics: [Akkadian and cuneiform NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/akkadian-cuneiform-nlp/) 3 · [Treebanks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/) 1 ## Papers 1. **[EvaCun 2025 Shared Task: Lemmatization and Token Prediction in Akkadian and Sumerian using LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aclbulk-2025-gordin-evacun-2025-shared-task-lemmatization/)** *(2025)* The shared task asks for two things on cuneiform text: lemmatization (the base form of each word) and token prediction (filling a masked word from its context). 2. **[BabyFST - Towards a Finite-State Based Computational Model of Ancient Babylonian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lingbulk-2020-sahala-babyfst-finite-state-based-computational/)** *(2020)* The paper describes BabyFST, a finite-state morphological analyser for Babylonian (the southern dialect of Akkadian) that works on transcribed input. 3. **[Akkadian Treebank for early Neo-Assyrian Royal Inscriptions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/treebanks-2020-luukko-akkadian-treebank-early-neo-assyrian/)** *(2020)* The paper describes the first Universal Dependencies treebank for Akkadian: 1,845 sentences and 22,277 words from the early Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions (Grayson 1991), taken from the lemmatised Oracc edition. 4. **[Automated Phonological Transcription of Akkadian Cuneiform Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lingbulk-2020-sahala-automated-phonological-transcription-akkadian-cuneiform/)** *(2020)* Oracc holds many Akkadian texts only as sign-by-sign transliteration. The authors ask whether the phonological transcription (vowel lengths made explicit, logograms replaced by their Akkadian readings) can be produced automatically. The task splits in two: syllabic words are a grapheme-to-phoneme problem, and… ## Co-authors (8) - [Krister Lindén](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/krister-linden/) ×3 - [Antti Arppe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/antti-arppe/) ×2 - [Miikka Silfverberg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/miikka-silfverberg/) ×2 - Mikko Luukko - Sam Hardwick - Shahar Spencer - [Shai Gordin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shai-gordin/) - [Stav Klein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stav-klein/)