--- title: "Mika Hämäläinen — author profile and papers" description: "Mika Hämäläinen, Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2022), h-index 12 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mika-hamalainen/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mika-hamalainen/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Mika Hämäläinen # Mika Hämäläinen 3 papers on this site · 2018–2022 current affiliation [Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences](https://ror.org/03hdaef25), Helsinki, Finland Mika Hämäläinen has 3 papers on this site, in 2018–2022, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [Jack Rueter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jack-rueter/), [Khalid Alnajjar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/khalid-alnajjar/), [Eetu Mäkelä](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eetu-makela/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5002214613) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9315-1278) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5002214613) · [158 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5002214613) · [567 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5002214613&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [3 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mika-hamalainen/#papers) · [40 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mika-hamalainen/cited-by/) · 5 more works in our library 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=Mika+H%C3%A4m%C3%A4l%C3%A4inen) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Mika+H%C3%A4m%C3%A4l%C3%A4inen) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Mika+H%C3%A4m%C3%A4l%C3%A4inen) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Mika+H%C3%A4m%C3%A4l%C3%A4inen) ## Affiliations - [Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences](https://ror.org/03hdaef25) · Helsinki, Finland —current · 2023–2026 on 25 papers · employment (Wikidata) - [Waseda University](https://ror.org/00ntfnx83) · Tokyo, Japan —2024–2025 on 2 papers - [University of Helsinki](https://ror.org/040af2s02) · Helsinki, Finland —2017–2024 on 93 papers · education (Wikidata) - [National Bureau of Investigation](https://ror.org/03g2cyv75) · Vantaa, Finland —employment 2022–2023 (Wikidata) - [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://ror.org/02feahw73) · Paris, France —2022 on 2 papers - [École Normale Supérieure - PSL](https://ror.org/05a0dhs15) · Paris, France —2022 on 2 papers · employment 2022 (Wikidata) - [Helsinki Institute for Information Technology](https://ror.org/05kph4940) · Espoo, Finland —2017–2018 on 2 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Semitic languages 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Question answering 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Normalizing Early English Letters to Present-day English Spelling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hamalainen-2018-normalizing-early-english-letters-present/)** *(2018 · 29 citations)* Early English personal letters, from the 15th to the 19th century, are full of non-standard spellings. The paper normalises them to present-day spelling with five methods: VARD2-style rewrite rules, contextual edit distance, statistical and neural machine translation (with and without period information), and a… 2. **[Automated Prediction of Medieval Arabic Diacritics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alnajjar-2020-automated-prediction-medieval-arabic-diacritics/)** *(2020 · 3 citations)* Arabic is normally written without diacritics, the marks that encode short vowels, gemination and similar features. 3. **[Harnessing Multilingual Resources to Question Answering in Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alnajjar-2022-harnessing-multilingual-resources-question-answering/)** *(2022 · 1 citation)* The paper addresses extractive question answering over the Qur'an for the Qur'an QA 2022 shared task. Given a question and a Qur'anic passage, the system must locate the start and end of the answer span. The public part of the QRCD dataset is small, and the authors work around this in three ways: ## Also in our library 5 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jack Rueter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jack-rueter/) ×2 - [Khalid Alnajjar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/khalid-alnajjar/) ×2 - [Eetu Mäkelä](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eetu-makela/) - [Jörg Tiedemann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jorg-tiedemann/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 40 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [4 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mika-hamalainen/cited-by/).