摘要：. INTRODUCTION. EXMARaLDA is a system for creating, managing and analyzing spo-ken language corpora (Schmidt & W.rner 2009, Schmidt et al. 2011), developed between 2000 and 2011at the Research Centre on Multilingualism (SFB 538) at the University of Hamburg. It is now maintained at the Hamburg Center for Speech Corpora (HZSK)1,and since November 2011, also in cooperation with the Archive for Spoken German (AGD) at the Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim. It comprises tools for transcrib-ing spoken language (Partitur-Editor), managing metadata (Corpus Manager), and query-ing spoken language corpora (EXAKT). The software components are freely available and operate on all platforms (Windows, Linux, Macintosh). EXMARaLDA forms the basis for 23 multilingual corpora of spoken language at the Hamburg Center for Speech Corpora. Its primary scope of application covers discourse and conversation analysis, first and second language acquisition studies, and dialectology (cf. Schmidt 2009: 158). This paper reviews the software from the perspective of its application in the GeWiss project, one of several larger corpus projects that have used EXMARaLDA.2As a starting point, the review will introduce the software requirements of the project, and their role in choosing the EXMA-RaLDA package for the creation of the GeWiss Corpus. As we worked with all three com-ponents of the software, the review will then deal in turn with the Partitur-Editor (version 1.5.1), the Corpus Manager (version 1.9), and EXAKT (version 1.1). In conclusion, some remarks concerning support and compatibility of the software will be made
