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whales, bats). Many of these creatures succeed in navigating over long distances. Just
how they manage to do this still remains a mystery. There are several possibilities. They
may navigate by using one or more of the following: 1. The sun; 2. The stars; 3. The
ear’s magnetic field. (When a small bar magnet is attached to a pigeon, it’s unable to
navigate); 4. A sense of smell; 5. Geographical features. (Birds flying from South
America to Canada seem to follow coastlines and valleys); 6. Changes in temperature.
(Salmon can detect a change in water temperature as small as .05 of a degree F.) 7.
Sound. (Whales and bats seem to use sonar.)
Experiments suggest that these navigational abilities are partly instinctive. In one
famous experiment a young seabird from the British Isles was taken across the Atlantic
by plane to Boston, 3.200 miles away. It was released and was back in its nest twelve
and a half days later.

Assignment 2
Machine translation

Stage I
1. Suggest the Ukrainian for the following phrases and use them in sentences of
your own:
to replace a human translator
to rival the quality of human translation
in all respects
much faster and more accurately
to surpass the capabilities of humans
in the area of language processing
ambiguity of meanings
to bear several meanings
to get rid of the ambiguity
context environment
common sense
relevant background information
disambiguation tools
dictionary entry
regular counterparts
to rearrange and smooth
transfer-based method
to be matched by a set of rules
artificial intelligence
extralinguistic information
subordinate role
to estimate probability
word collocation
proof reading

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