DOI: 10.3390/aerospace13080736 ISSN: 2226-4310

AI-Driven Semantic Processing of Notices to Air Missions for Aeronautical Information Management: Ontology-Grounded Type-Aware Extraction

Tianyue Wei, Xin Lai, Chengwei Zhang, Yidan Liang

Timely and accurate interpretation of Notices to Air Missions (NOTAMs) is essential for effective aeronautical information management (AIM). Although NOTAMs follow a standardized format, their abbreviated textual content and heterogeneous operational semantics make automated processing difficult. Existing methods often address type classification, information extraction, and semantic representation independently, leaving a gap between textual interpretation and ontology-grounded information management. To address this gap, this paper presents NOTE, an AI-driven ontology-grounded type-aware extraction framework for NOTAMs. NOTE is supported by a dynamic semantic ontology that combines a shared semantic module with seven type-specific sub-ontologies. Guided by the predicted semantic type, the framework activates the corresponding ontology-aligned schema contract, extracts and validates the relevant information, and materializes the result as Resource Description Framework (RDF) triples. Experiments on 25,341 operational NOTAMs and a manually curated ontology-mapping set produced a macro-F1 of 0.9424 for type-aware routing and an F1 of 0.9053 for structured extraction, with a schema conformance rate of 0.9976. The dynamic ontology achieved slot- and relation-level F1 scores of 0.9472 and 0.9835, respectively. Compared with a scale-matched static ontology, type-specific activation improved relation mapping by 13.06 percentage points while producing semantic richness close to the human-annotated reference. These findings indicate that NOTE provides an effective connection between abbreviated NOTAM text and validated ontology-grounded representations for AIM.

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