A knowledge base for automatic capitulation in expert system

This article describes the development of an Expert System (ES) designed to deal with the Crimes Against the Organization of Labour, listed on the Brazilian penal code. The objective of SECTRA is to find the corresponding article for a criminal conduct and the respective penalty due. Analysing the penal domain, we observed that the juridical operators use the same type of deductive reasoning used in the technique of Expert Systems (ES), to fit the crime to the appropriate legal framework. According to [Durkin, 1994], Expert Systems (ES) are computer programs developed to model the human ability to solve problems. Their main components are the Knowledge Base (which contains the specialist knowledge) and the Inference Engine (that processes the knowledge). In the present work, the norms related to the Crimes Against the Organization of Labour are transformed into rules, forming a knowledge base.