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title = "A Compliance-Preserving Retrieval System for Aircraft {MRO} Task Search",
author = "Jo, Byungho",
editor = {Matusevych, Yevgen and
Eryi{\u{g}}it, G{\"u}l{\c{s}}en and
Aletras, Nikolaos},
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the {E}uropean Chapter of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 5: Industry Track)",
month = mar,
year = "2026",
address = "Rabat, Morocco",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-industry.23/",
pages = "317--329",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-384-5",
abstract = "Aircraft Maintenance Technicians (AMTs) spend up to 30{\%} of work time searching manuals{---}a documented efficiency bottleneck in MRO operations where every procedure must be traceable to certified sources.We present a compliance-preserving retrieval system that adapts LLM reranking and semantic search to aviation MRO environments by operating alongside, rather than replacing, certified legacy viewers.The system constructs revision-robust embeddings from ATA chapter hierarchies and uses vision-language parsing to structure certified content, allowing technicians to preview ranked tasks and access verified procedures in existing viewers.Evaluation on 49k synthetic queries achieves {\ensuremath{>}}90{\%} retrieval accuracy, while bilingual controlled studies with 10 licensed AMTs demonstrate 90.9{\%} top-10 success rate and 95{\%} reduction in lookup time{---}from 6-15 minutes to 18 seconds per task.These gains provide concrete evidence that semantic retrieval can operate within strict regulatory constraints and meaningfully reduce operational workload in real-world multilingual MRO workflows."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T A Compliance-Preserving Retrieval System for Aircraft MRO Task Search
%A Jo, Byungho
%Y Matusevych, Yevgen
%Y Eryiğit, Gülşen
%Y Aletras, Nikolaos
%S Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 5: Industry Track)
%D 2026
%8 March
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Rabat, Morocco
%@ 979-8-89176-384-5
%F jo-2026-compliance
%X Aircraft Maintenance Technicians (AMTs) spend up to 30% of work time searching manuals—a documented efficiency bottleneck in MRO operations where every procedure must be traceable to certified sources.We present a compliance-preserving retrieval system that adapts LLM reranking and semantic search to aviation MRO environments by operating alongside, rather than replacing, certified legacy viewers.The system constructs revision-robust embeddings from ATA chapter hierarchies and uses vision-language parsing to structure certified content, allowing technicians to preview ranked tasks and access verified procedures in existing viewers.Evaluation on 49k synthetic queries achieves \ensuremath>90% retrieval accuracy, while bilingual controlled studies with 10 licensed AMTs demonstrate 90.9% top-10 success rate and 95% reduction in lookup time—from 6-15 minutes to 18 seconds per task.These gains provide concrete evidence that semantic retrieval can operate within strict regulatory constraints and meaningfully reduce operational workload in real-world multilingual MRO workflows.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-industry.23/
%P 317-329
Markdown (Informal)
[A Compliance-Preserving Retrieval System for Aircraft MRO Task Search](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-industry.23/) (Jo, EACL 2026)
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