WOLF provides a framework for creating indigenous dictionaries. The software supports dictionaries with multiple languages and dialects, searching and sorting, import and export facilities, generation of web-pages and pdf documents, integration with the ACORNS mobile gallery applications, multimedia attachments, and IPA phonetics.
The interface has an EXCEL feel, but geared for use by linguists. We chose this design because many linguists use EXCEL, despite its limitations for creating dictionaries. Each row in a WOLF dictionary corresponds to a word. Each word, similarly contains row and column cells. A more detailed discussion and examples are provided at the acornslinguistics website.
WOLF supports
- Available for free downloads from Windows and Apple Stores
- Up to 100 languages in a single dictionary
- Multimedia audio, picture, and video attached to words, examples, and definitions
- Unlimited numbers of definitions and examples for a single word
- Uses the standardized GOLD ontology and ISO language codes
- Entry of phonetic representations
- Extensive search and sort capabilities
- Import and Export facilities employing XML
- Import from other dictionary formats (like EXCEL, MDF, SDF, and Lift).
- Ability to merge dictionaries together
- Entry of the dictionary copyright notice and contacts for contributing authors
- Ability to record audio that attaches to dictionary words, definitions, and examples
- Undo and redo facilities to recover from errors
- Hard copy printouts in RTF or PDF formats
- Comprehensive printout of dictionaries using general-purpose user-defined templates
- Support multiple writing systems and Unicode fonts.
- Ability to automaticall merge keyboard layouts into mobile and web based output versions
- Single click generation of websites that can be integrated with user web content
- Applications that run on mobile devices using the ACORNS gallery application
- Supports hyperlinks linking to external web pages.