M4LAW e suas Classes: um olhar sobre as possibilidades de representação da informação.

It presents a route for building a thesaurus of document types in a legal domain for application in the M4law intelligent document management system. It reviews the literature on knowledge organization systems, taxonomies and thesauri, aiming to characterize these tools. The methodology used is of a qualitative and applied nature, using documentary research as a technical procedure. It brings together principles for preparing the thesaurus based on the legal and technological context presented, and indicates that the software can explore better terminological resources, suggesting future studies on the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]