This project is an extension of ACORNS. Wolves are indigenous to many parts of North America; hence the name.

The motivation for WOLF ([W]ord [O]riented [L]inguistic [F]ramework) is to provide an easy to use framework where linguists can create indigenous dictionaries with a user friendly interface. It has an EXCEL feel, but designed for use by linquists. It 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

You can check out the documentation pages for a complete list of features. Future releases will provide plug-in capabilities to support developer enhancements, speech recognition, dictionary based games, and wiki-like capabilities for posting dictionaries to the Web.