Ontology for Command Annotation - Speedport - Description

Kurzfassung

The voice communication between air traffic control (ATC) / apron control and aircraft pilots is essential for the safe and efficient flow of air traffic. Despite this fact, technical ATC systems have no access to the information within this verbal communication. Speech Recognition and Understanding technologies can close this gap so that technical systems can access information from the voice communication channel and build downstream applications such as callsign highlighting or automatic flight strip updates within the AeM-Speedport project upon this knowledge. This process requires a clear definition of all relevant information items that can be part of ATC voice communication, e.g., callsign, different kind of commands and so on. For this purpose, this document describes an ontology that conceptually defines relevant elements within ATC communications. It also provides a machine-readable format to transfer the information among different systems.