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EXMARaLDA

01-February-2012 - New version of the demo corpus (HTML5 and video integration, new English example)
22-December-2011 - Call for Papers: LREC Workshop on 'Best Practices for Speech Corpora in Linguistic Research'
20-October-2011 - New versions of the EXMARaLDA tools ready for download
20-October-2011 - Multingual corpora available at the HZSK
01-July-2011 - Start of LiS project and CLARIN-D project at the HZSK
30-June-2011 - Funding period of SFB 538 (Research Centre on Multilingualism) ends
06-December-2010 - CFP: GSCL Conference on Multilingual Resources and Multilingual Applications
30-November-2010 - Anniversary edition of the EXMARaLDA tools ready for download
29-November-2010 - EXMARaLDA: 10th Anniversary!
29-October-2010 - Updated documentation and FAQs, English version of HIAT documentation
30-September-2010 - First part of the E3 corpora (PAIDUS: German and Spanish data) published
19-September-2010 - HAMATAC (Hamburg Map Task Corpus) published
09-July-2010 - FOLKER 1.1 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)

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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 was originally 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. Since July 2011, the development of EXMARaLDA is continued at the Hamburg Centre for Language Corpora. All components of the EXMARaLDA system are freely available to users outside the University of Hamburg.

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.