An ontological approach for simulating legal action in the Brazilian penal code

The applicability of Artificial Intelligence for the Legal Domain has several and non-depleted lines of research. Since Colonization, the use of ambiguity in drafting the Brazilian Legal Documents was a palliative to solve cases involving economic, political and social interests between local authorities with the European Court. Further, when conflicts between norms emerge, only time, specificity and superiority criteria are not enough to break the tie, a second degree level governing what criteria should be used in different situations need to be addressed as well. In face of these tangle legal documents, this research project aims to present the OntoCrime and OntoLegalTask: ontological representations through which one can formalize the Brazilian Penal Law to check norm violation and automate legal reasoning. Finally, an experiment with the drinking-drive law is presented.