EXMARaLDA
18-August-2008 - Version 0.4. of the query tool EXAKT ready for Download!
11-August-2008 - New version of the demo corpus online
16-May-2008 - Version 1.2 of the Corpus Manager available for download
14-Feb-2008 - Preview version of the K6 corpus online
09-Jan-2008 - New version of the demo corpus online
02-Nov-2007 - New website version online
02-Nov-2007 - Version 0.3. of the query tool EXAKT ready for Download!
02-Nov-2007 - Version 1.3.4. of the Partitur-Editor ready for Download!
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 being developed in a project 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 or the TASX Annotator).
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.