engleski

First Steps in Designing Air Traffic Control Communication Language Technology System - Compiling Spoken Corpus of Radiotelephony Communication

One of the most essential parts of air traffic control is communication. It helps air traffic controllers and pilots operate the plane and maintain safe and expeditious flight. A survey of the NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System database has identified that lack of radiotelephony communication skills and discipline by pilots and controllers is a causal or circumstantial factor in 80% of incidents or accidents. The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of spoken corpus of radiotelephony phraseology recorded on the frequencies of Zagreb Approach and Tower Control. The spoken corpus of radiotelephony communication has been compiled and will be used as a basis for designing a language technology system that should spot deviations from the prescribed usage of radiotelephony communication. The recordings have been made during peak hours of traffic at Zagreb Airport Pleso. Out of recorded forty hours, twenty hours (ten hours of communication from Zagreb Approach Control and ten hours from communication on Tower Control) have been selected to be transcribed and incorporated into the language technology system. Although the designed corpus of spoken radiotelephony communications was recorded in Croatian airspace and is relatively small, it is found to be representative for radiotelephony language used in Europe and therefore applicable to any research in European radiotelephony communications.

air traffic control communication; approach and tower control; radiotelephony communication; spoken corpus of radiotelephony communication; language technology system

nije evidentirano