EXMARaLDA – creating, analysing and sharing spoken language corpora for pragmatic research

Schmidt, Thomas; Wörner, Kai

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EXMARaLDA – creating, analysing and sharing spoken language corpora for pragmatic research

Thomas Schmidt

Kai Wörner

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Published online: 1 December 2009

https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.19.4.06sch

This paper presents EXMARaLDA, a system for the computer-assisted creation and analysis of spoken language corpora. The first part contains some general observations about technological and methodological requirements for doing corpus-based pragmatics. The second part explains the system’s architecture and gives an overview of its most important software components – a transcription editor, a corpus management tool and a corpus query tool. The last part presents some corpora which have been or are currently being compiled with the help of EXMARaLDA.

Keywords: Corpus, Conversation analysis, Spoken language, Computer, Transcription, Functional pragmatics

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