Meanings
- artificial intelligencecomputingA computer language designed for communicating knowledge between independently running computer programs.
The Knowledge Interchange Format is a proposed standard for the specification and interchange of ontologies.
2000, William J. Raynor, Jr., The International Dictionary of Artificial Intelligence, page 1553 more examples
It is exemplified by the Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF)¹⁵, part of an approach described in the paper by Tenenbaum.
1992, Charles J. Petrie, Enterprise Integration Modeling: Proceedings of the First International Conference, Introduction, page 7The 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.
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 148Common Logic Common Logic (CL) evolved from two projects to develop parallel ANSI standards for conceptual graphs and the Knowledge Interchange Format [9].
2008, Frank van Harmelen, Vladimir Lifschitz, Bruce Porter, editors, Handbook Of Knowledge Representation, page 217
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