EXMARaLDA

22-July-2010 - Announcement: Workshop on learner corpora
09-July-2010 - FOLKER 1.1 released.
28-June-2010 - New documentation in the help section
24-June-2010 - New version of the demo corpus (new Polish transcription)
27-May-2010 - New versions of the EXMARaLDA tools ready for download
22-March-2010 - FOLKER 1.0 released
08-March-2010 - Demo and sample version of the METU Spoken Turkish Corpus published
25-February-2010 - New version of the K6 corpus (CoSi - Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpreting)
22-September-2009 - E2 corpora (DUFDE: French/German bilinguals, BIPODE: Portuguese/German bilinguals) published
17-September-2009 - New video tutorial in the help section
06-July-2009 - First part of the K4 corpus (Parallel texts, business communication) published
03-July-2009 - Gold Standard for the E5 Corpus (Rehbein-ENDFAS/SKOBI: Turkish/German bilingual data) published
11-June-2009 - Updated page for external corpora
10-April-2009 - K5 corpus (Scandinavian Semicommunication) published
04-March-2009 - E5 corpus (Rehbein-ENDFAS/SKOBI: Turkish/German bilingual data) published
05-January-2009 - K2 corpus (DiK - Interpreting in hospitals) published

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EXMARaLDA is an acronym of "Extensible Markup Language for Discourse Annotation". It is a system of concepts, data formats and tools for the computer assisted transcription and annotation of spoken language, and for the construction and analysis of spoken language corpora. EXMARaLDA is developed in the project "Computer assisted methods for the creation and analysis of multilingual data" at the Collaborative Research Center "Multilingualism" (Sonderforschungsbereich "Mehrsprachigkeit" - SFB 538) at the University of Hamburg. All components of the EXMARaLDA system are freely available to users outside the SFB.

The main features of EXMARaLDA are:

XML based data formats
All EXMARaLDA data are stored in XML files. The use of this W3C standard ensures flexible usability and long-term archivability of the data.
Java based tools
All software tools for creating and working with EXMARaLDA data (Partitur Editor, Corpus Manager and Query tool EXAKT) are JAVA applications. This makes them suitable for all currently used operating systems (Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Unix).
Interoperability
The EXMARaLDA concept is based on the annotation graph framework (Bird/Liberman 2001) and thus aims at a maximal exchangeability and reusability of transcription data. Hence, it is possible to create and edit EXMARaLDA data not only with the system's own tools, but also with other popular software (like Praat, ELAN, Transcriber or FOLKER).

Furthermore, EXMARaLDA data can be transformed into a number of widely used presentation formats (RTF, HTML, PDF) for web-based or printed publication. Last but not least, EXMARaLDA supports several important transcription systems (HIAT, DIDA, GAT, CHAT) through a number of parameterised functions.