Knowledge Interchange Format

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Knowledge Interchange Format

  1. (computing, artificial intelligence) A computer language designed for communicating knowledge between independently running computer programs.
    • 1992, Charles J. Petrie, Enterprise Integration Modeling: Proceedings of the First International Conference, Introduction, page 7:
      It is exemplified by the Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF)15, part of an approach described in the paper by Tenenbaum.
    • 2000, William J. Raynor, Jr., The International Dictionary of Artificial Intelligence, page 155:
      The Knowledge Interchange Format is a proposed standard for the specification and interchange of ontologies.
    • 2000, Petr Kotásek, Jaroslav Zendulka, “An XML Approach to Knowledge Discovery in Databases”, in Tomáš Hruška, Masa-aki Hashimoto, editors, Knowledge-Based Software Engineering: Proceedings of the Fourth Joint Conference, page 148:
      The Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF) is an example of a convenient formalism to describe these ontologies, and XML can serve as an implementation technology in the way similar to that outlined briefly in this paper.
    • 2008, Frank van Harmelen, Vladimir Lifschitz, Bruce Porter, editors, Handbook Of Knowledge Representation, page 217:
      Common Logic Common Logic (CL) evolved from two projects to develop parallel ANSI standards for conceptual graphs and the Knowledge Interchange Format [9].

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