Argument Interchange Format

The Argument Interchange Format (AIF) is an international effort to develop a representational mechanism for exchanging argument resources between research groups, tools, and domains using a semantically rich language. AIF traces its history back to a 2005 colloquium in Budapest. The result of the work in Budapest was first published as a draft description in 2006. Building on this foundation, further work then used the AIF to build foundations for the <a href="/facts/Argument_Web/vzwNHaF4">Argument Web</a>.
AIF-RDF is the extended ontology represented in the <a href="/facts/RDF_Schema/GCVY1XYY">Resource Description Framework Schema (RDFS)</a> semantic language.
The Argument Interchange Format introduces a small set of ontological concepts that aim to capture a common understanding of argument -- one that works in multiple domains (both domains of argumentation and also domains of academic research), so that data can be shared and re-used across different projects in different areas. These ontological concepts are:

<ul><li>Information (I-nodes)</li>
<li>Applications of Rules of Inference (RA-nodes)</li>
<li>Applications of Rules of Conflict (CA-nodes)</li>
<li>Applications of Rules of Preference (PA-nodes)</li></ul>
extended by:

<ul><li>Schematic Forms (F-nodes) that are instantiated by RA, CA and PA nodes</li></ul>
The AIF has <a href="/facts/Reification_(knowledge_representation)/4udgqY99">reifications</a> in a variety of development environments and implementation languages including

<ul><li>MySQL database schema</li>
<li>RDF</li>
<li>Prolog</li>
<li>JSON</li></ul>
as well as translations to visual languages such as DOT and SVG.
AIF data can be accessed online at <a href="http://www.aifdb.org">AIFdb</a>.

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Argument Interchange Format