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Errata for PAC 39 The following errata are found in the article titled Building Search Engines for Algonquian Languages, by Marie-Odile Junker and Terry Stewart, which appears in PAC 39, pp. 378–411. p. 378: The following paragraph is missing at the beginning of the introduction. IntroductIon Building effective resources that help preserve Native American languages presents many challenges. Although resources like dictionaries are being compiled, speakers often are at a loss in using them. The recent standardization of orthography, the predominance of an oral language, and considerable dialectal variation mean that speakers often do not find the words they are looking for because of incorrect or non-standard spelling of words. We show here how we built a search engine for the Eastern James Bay Cree dictionary on the Web (www.eastcree.org) that allows spelling mistakes or creative spelling, and how we further incorporated it into a more complex engine for verb dictionaries, where an inflected form has to be matched with a basic dictionary form. We also show how we then adapted our algorithm to the Innu language. p. 380 Bold syllabics in the table should be as follows: Southern East Cree Northern East Cree ᑲᐸᑦ kapat ᑭᐱᑦ kipit ᒪᓯᓇᐦᐄᑲᓐ masinahiikan ᒥᓯᓂᐦᐄᑭᓐ misinihiikin ᓇᒣᔅ names ᓂᒫᔅ nimaas ᔕᐧᐁᔨᒣᐤ shaweyimeu ᔑᐧᐋᔨᒫᐤ shiwaayimaau 419 420 Errata for PaC 39 p. 381: Missing vertical right line of table. Write . . . Not . . . ᒥᔥᑎᒄ mishtikw ᒥᔥᑐᒄ mishtukw ᒋᓀᐱᒄ chinepikw ᒋᓀᐳᒄ chinepukw ᒌᔑᒄ chiishikw ᒌᔓᒄ chiishukw ᐅᔥᒌᔑᒄ ushchiishikw ᐅᔥᒌᔓᒄ ushchiishukw p. 384 French Spelling of words—the list should read as: • tch for ch [ʧ] • dj for ch [dʒ] • j for sh [ʒ] • ch for sh [ʃ] p. 384: Last paragraph—Inflected words. Instead of beginning with An entire different class of problems . . . , the sentence should be: A set of different problems arises when considering inflected words. p. 392: List in the middle of the page, fourth item on the list, remove the word within. ...

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