Knowledge Interchange Format

Knowledge Interchange Format

English

Proper noun

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, 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].

Derived terms

• KIF