EXMARaLDA

 EXMARaLDA (Extensible Markup Language for Discourse Annotation) is a set of free software tools for creating, managing and analyzing spoken language corpora. It consists of a transcription tool (comparable to tools like Praat or Transcriber),^[1] a tool for administering corpus meta data and a tool for doing queries (KWIC searches) on spoken language corpora. EXMARaLDA is used for doing conversation and discourse analysis, dialectology, phonology and research into first and second language acquisition in children and adults. EXMARaLDA is based on the open standards XML and Unicode and programmed in Java.

EXMARaLDA

Developer(s)	Thomas Schmidt and Kai Wörner, from the Special Research Centre on Multilingualism - University of Hamburg.
Initial release	2001
Written in	Java
Operating system	Windows, Linux, Macintosh, FreeBSD, Solaris
Available in	English, German, French, Swedish, Turkish
Type	Corpus manager, Linguistic research software
License	GNU GPL
Website	http://www.exmaralda.org/en_index.html

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