Classi cation of Readback Errors
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2020-07-22
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Readback errors in English Air Tra c Control speech pose a signi cant safety
risk. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) have published various reports illustrating com-
munication errors as prominent factors resulting in aviation incidents. While com-
munication errors exist in a broad range, readback and hearback errors will be the
main focus in this thesis. In an attempt to reduce readback or hearback errors,
this research looked at the possibility of automating the hearback process where
controllers are required to verify readbacks made by pilots. The task of classifying
readbacks as 'Correct', 'Incomplete' or 'Wrong' was seen as analogous to a sentence
matching task, where the relationship between instruction from a controller and
readback from a pilot was determined. A processing pipeline was introduced as
'The Proposed Scheme' and Natural Language Processing techniques and Convo-
lutional Neural Network architectures were explored. The best implementation of
the proposed scheme had a 78.2% recall rate, higher than the most recent reported
recall rate of human controllers which stood at 77.8%.
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Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen