Expert System for the Legal Regime Governing Women in Ethiopia: The Case of the Revised Family Code and Labor law
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2005-07
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Expert systems play a significant role in disseminating facts by simulating the knowledge
of the expert. Works in the area of expert system focuses on issues like alleviating the
scarcity and preserving of expert knowledge. One of the areas which expert system
plays a significant role is law. In this research we investigated the potentials of expert
system by developing an expert advisory for the legal regime governing the rights of
women in Ethiopia. The study will primarily used for assisting legal experts. Currently there are different governmental and non-governmental bodies that work on
the provision of consultancy service to issues related to women. The Ethiopian Women
Lawyers Association (EWLA), a private organization founded by group of Ethiopian
women lawyers in 1995, is one such organization that provides legal advisory service to
women in Ethiopia. However; there exists shortage of experts in the association to
disseminate the legal aid service throughout the whole country with desired capacity. In
an attempt to address t his problem Women Legal Advisory (WoLA) is developed in this
study. The knowledge of WoLa is acquired using hierarchical modeling method . The important
parameters are identified to produce the rules out of the Revised Family Code and the
Labor Law of Ethiopia . Then the acquired rules are represented in an expert system
development shell known as Knowledge Pro Gold for windows WoLA provide advise on the bases of rules that are specified in the codes specially, the
Revised Family Code and Labor Law. Advisory providers at Ethiopian Women Lawyers
Association test WOLA and fairly encouraging result is obtained.
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