ANACpedia: Online Dictionaries – Aviation Terminology in Portuguese,

English and Spanish

ANAC• Mission:Our mission is to ensure all Brazilians safety and excellence in Civil Aviation.• Vision:Our vision is to be a reference for Civil Aviation safety and development worldwide. • Values:We seek to return the investment of our main shareholder: the society.We reject the intervention of any interest other than the public interest.We perform our duties with the highest level of ethics and transparency.We value people and meritocracy.We encourage innovation.We are proud to work at the Brazilian Civil Aviation Agency.Aviation is our passion.

Context

• Airport Infrastructure

• Operations

• Air Services

• Economic Regulation of Airports

• Airworthiness

• International Relations

Airport Infrastructure

https://www.politicshome.com/articles/opinion/british-air-transport-association/airports-need-cut-their-charges

www.politicshome.com/articles/opinion/british-air-transport-association/airports-need-cut-their-charges

Operations

http://www.universalweather.com/blog/2012/09/businessaviationoperationstothejapangrandprix/https://www.google.com.br/search?q=Airport+Infrastructure&espv=2&biw=1600&bih=799&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMIz_SV2abqxgIViguQCh0kngvD#tbm=isch&q=Operations%C2%A0aviation&imgrc=P19ZDpQhi5V45M%3A

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Air Services

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Economic Regulation of Airports

http://estrangeira.com.br/terminal-3-aeroporto-de-guarulhos/http://www.leighfisher.com/global-experience/indian-airports-regulation-and-business-planning

Airworthiness

 

http://www.capitalteresina.com.br/media/uploads/2015/05/15/aviao.jpghttp://www.defensemedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Airbus_A321_glass-cockpit-fbw1.jpg

International Relations

http://guiadoestudante.abril.com.br/blogs/melhores-faculdades/files/2011/07/relacoes-internacionais-blo.jpghttp://www.brasilescola.com/upload/vestibular/eb694f11c330b9519275c729ebb8a951.jpghttp://www.electoralforum.org/images/slideshow/gallery-view/dec-2015/9-world-flags-11854-hd-wallpapers.jpg

Linguistics at ANAC

Activities developed by the Linguistics Office:

Aviation English Courses English and Spanish evaluations Terminology Management: ANACpedia

Aviation English Courses

Aviation English Course

Language Exams

Language Exams

ATA 2011 - Boston

Staff

Motivation: standardize translations of aviation terms from English into Portuguese for daily activities

Motivation: standardize definitions

People form other Offices started to use the Glossaries and demanded for a Glossary available for all

Methodology of the daily work at the time

ANACpedia available at the Intranet only

ATA 2011 - Boston

No relations between terms, no contexts of use, no use of tools for carrying out corpus linguistics research

Intention of establishing Technical Cooperation Agreements

English-Portuguese/Portuguese-English: 1900 terms

Spanish-Portuguese/Portuguese-Spanish: 1700 terms

Acronyms in English: 2370

ATA 2015

ANACpedia available on the Internet since 2013

Staff

Partnership with the Brazilian Department of Airspace Control

Corpus

ATA 2015

Use of tools for carrying out corpus linguistics research, relations between terms (synonyms, related terms, broader terms, narrower terms), contexts of use, classification of terms in sub-areas of the major Aviation area

Enrichment of Dictionaries and lists of acronyms X increase in the number of entries

New dictionaries and lists of acronyms

Dictionaries and lists of acronyms available

English-Portuguese/Portuguese-English = 4000 entries

Spanish-Portuguese/Portuguese-Spanish = 2000 entries

English-Spanish/Spanish-English = 750 entries