  In this paper we study the effects of torsion of space-time in the expansion
of the universe as a candidate to dark energy. The analysis is done by
reconstructing the torsion function along cosmic evolution by using
observational data of Supernovae type Ia and Hubble parameter measurements. We
have used a kinematic model for the parameterization of the comoving distance
and the Hubble parameter, then the free parameters of the models are
constrained by observational data. The reconstruction of the torsion function
is obtained directly from the data, using the kinematic parameterizations, and
the values for the Hubble parameter and the deceleration parameter are in good
agreement to the standard model estimates.
