Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities - Corpus Linguistics and Morphology

Release history

BeMaTaC – A deeply annotated multimodal map-task corpus of spoken learner and native German

Version Released as Release date
2.1 2013-02.1 May 2014
2.0 2013-02 January 2014
1.0 2013-01 January 2013

Release 2.1 / 2013-02.1


  • Access in ANNIS: L1 | L2
  • EXMARaLDA Partitur files: L1 | L2
  • Audio files (WAVE): L1 | L2
  • Audio files (mp3): L2
  • Video files (QuickTime): L1
  • Video files (WebM): L1
  • Map files: L1 | L2


Minor bugfix release, linguistic data remains unchanged.

  • Fixes playback issues with WebM videos in 2012-11-02-B and 2012-11-08-A
  • Fixes misnamed utterance tiers in 2012-10-31-D
  • Fixes links to map files in ANNIS metadata

Release 2.0 / 2013-02


  • Access in ANNIS: L1 | L2
  • EXMARaLDA Partitur files: L1 | L2
  • Audio files (WAVE): L1 | L2
  • Audio files (mp3): L2
  • Video files (QuickTime): L1
  • Video files (WebM): L1
  • Map files: L1 | L2


First release of the L2 subcorpus (without videos) with the following dialogues:

  • 2013-04-18-C
  • 2013-04-18-D
  • 2013-04-19-A
  • 2013-04-19-B
  • 2013-05-02-A

Changes to ANNIS metadata:

  • Fixes speaker designations
  • Removes the source attribute
  • Introduces the missing attributes document, sex, l1, l2 and languages-used

Changes to linguistic data:

  • Introduces a syntactically motivated utterance tier, replaces the previous utterance tier, which relied much more on breaks and speaker turns
  • Introduces backchanneling, disfluency, and repair annotations
  • Fixes anonymization in 2012-11-02-B and 2012-11-08-A

Release 1.0 / 2013-01


  • Access in ANNIS: L1
  • EXMARaLDA Partitur files: L1
  • Praat TextGrid files: L1
  • Audio files (WAVE): L1
  • Video files (QuickTime): L1
  • Video files (WebM): L1
  • Map files: L1


First public release of the L1 subcorpus with the following dialogues:

  • 2011-12-14-A
  • 2011-12-14-B
  • 2012-01-19-A
  • 2012-10-30-B
  • 2012-10-31-A
  • 2012-10-31-B
  • 2012-10-31-C
  • 2012-10-31-D
  • 2012-11-01-A
  • 2012-11-02-B
  • 2012-11-08-A
  • 2012-11-08-B


Last update: 03 June 2014