Antti Kanner

Antti Kanner is a Researcher at the Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki. His work focuses on computational linguistics, historical semantics, and interdisciplinary digital humanities projects. He is affiliated with the Helsinki Computational History Group and has contributed to projects like 'Flows of Power' and 'Formulaic Intertextuality.' Kanner's research explores topics such as modal grammar in political discourse, naming conventions in historical texts, and the evolution of Finnish national identity through language.

His awards include the August Ahlqvistin Väitöskirjapalkinto (2023) and the Open Science and Research Award (2016). He collaborates internationally, particularly in Slavic and Finno-Ugrian studies, and has published widely on corpus linguistics, media analysis, and historical text mining.

• Key Projects: Helsinki Computational History Group (2018–present), Retoriset Ryhmästrategiat (2022–2026)
• Major Contributions: Developed workflows integrating automated text analysis with close reading, analyzed naming patterns in medieval Novgorod, and studied affectivity in political journalism.