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Monday, October 20, 2003  

Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF)
http://logic.stanford.edu/kif/dpans.html

This dpANS specifies the syntax and semantics of Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF) and a syntactic variant of KIF in "infix" form. Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF) is a language designed for use in the interchange of knowledge among disparate computer systems (created by different programmers, at different times, in different languages, and so forth). KIF is not intended as a primary language for interaction with human users (though it can be used for this purpose). Different computer systems can interact with their users in whatever forms are most appropriate to their applications (for example Prolog, conceptual graphs, natural language, and so forth).

KIF is also not intended as an internal representation for knowledge within computer systems or within closely related sets of computer systems (though the language can be used for this purpose as well). Typically, when a computer system reads a knowledge base in KIF, it converts the data into its own internal form (specialized pointer structures, arrays, etc.). All computation is done using these internal forms. When the computer system needs to communicate with another computer system, it maps its internal data structures into KIF. The purpose of KIF is roughly analogous to that of Postscript. Postscript is commonly used by text and graphics formatting systems in communicating information about documents to printers

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