--- title: "Tanja Säily · University of Helsinki — author profile and papers" description: "Tanja Säily, University of Helsinki: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2021), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tanja-saily/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tanja-saily/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Tanja Säily # Tanja Säily Tanja Säily has 2 papers in our library, in 2018–2021, most of them on [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Eetu Mäkelä](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eetu-makela/), [Mika Hämäläinen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mika-hamalainen/), [Jack Rueter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jack-rueter/). 2 papers in our library · 2018–2021 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5000404764) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4407-8929) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5000404764) · [95 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5000404764) · [881 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5000404764&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tanja-saily/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 18 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tanja-saily/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5461](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/55/#star-5461) 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=Tanja+S%C3%A4ily) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Tanja+S%C3%A4ily) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Tanja+S%C3%A4ily) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Tanja+S%C3%A4ily) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Helsinki** Helsinki · Finland 2009–2026 · 52 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-helsinki/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Literature and Literary Theory · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/literature-and-literary-theory/) · [Computer Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [History · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/history/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 1 paper From Plenipotentiary to Puddingless: Users and Uses of New Words in Early English Letters](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saily-2021-plenipotentiary-puddingless-users-uses-new/) ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper Normalizing Early English Letters to Present-day English Spelling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hamalainen-2018-normalizing-early-english-letters-present/) ## 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. **[From Plenipotentiary to Puddingless: Users and Uses of New Words in Early English Letters](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saily-2021-plenipotentiary-puddingless-users-uses-new/)** *(2021 · 12 citations)* The authors set out to find who coined or adopted new English words in personal letters, since earlier studies of lexical history leaned on printed texts written mostly by educated men. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Eetu Mäkelä](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eetu-makela/) ×2 - [Mika Hämäläinen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mika-hamalainen/) ×2 - [Jack Rueter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jack-rueter/) - [Jörg Tiedemann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jorg-tiedemann/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - Proceedings of the Second Joint SIGHUM Workshop on… ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 18 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tanja-saily/cited-by/). 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