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