Thomas Schmidt (Universität Hamburg, Germany)

My talk will give an overview of EXMARaLDA, a system for the computer-assisted construction, management and analysis of spoken language corpora. EXMARaLDA is developed at the Research Centre on Multilingualism at the University of Hamburg with the principal aim of providing researchers with an environment in which spoken language data can be efficiently created, flexibly analysed, and reliably exchanged between people and computer tools. Presently nearing its 10th anniversary, EXMARaLDA is now widely used for doing conversation and discourse analysis, research into first and second language acquisition, dialectology and phonology. In my talk, I will use examples from learner corpora to demonstrate the functionality of EXMARaLDA. I will devote special attention to questions of interoperability, considering both the present situation and possible future developments.