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
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Economic Regulation of Airports
Airworthiness
International Relations
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
ATA 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 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