WOLF Version 2.00 features
The current WOLF release is designed to have a feel similar to EXCEL, 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 of this is provided on the page
describing (entry of words.html.
WOLF version 1.00 supports:
- Up to 100 languages in a single dictionary
- Multimedia audio, picture, and video attached to words, examples, and definitions
- Comprehensive printout of dictionaries using general-purpose user-defined templates
- Dictionaries that display on Mobile devices using the ACORNS galllery application
- Generation of dictionary-based web-sites using user-defined templates
- 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
- Full MDF and SFM Import from FieldWorks ant Toolbox applications
- Entry of the dictionary copyright notice and contacts for contributing authors
- Ability to record audio that incorporates into the dictionary
- Undo and redo facilities to recover from errors
- Hard copy printouts
Wolf version 1.00 is a good start, but more work needs to be done. We list some of the improvements below. We also eagerly
seek feedback from linguists for suggestions that will encourage widespread acceptance of this package. Developers that want to
contribute should contact us at harveyd@sou.edu
To do list
- Dictionary-based games that can run within WOLF, on the Web, or on mobile devices
- Automatic speech recognition and pronunciation verification capabilities
- Plugin capabilities to incorporate developer contributions
WOLF, though being freeware, is not yet open source. However, our intention is to make it so at some point after the software
matures.