Knowledge Interchange Format

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].

• KIF