From: owner-standard-upper-ontology@listserv.ieee.org on behalf of John F. Sowa [sowa@bestweb.net] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 9:47 PM To: Murray Altheim Cc: Pat Hayes; standard-upper-ontology@listserv.ieee.org; cg@cs.uah.edu; cl@philebus.tamu.edu Subject: Re: [CL] SWRL first-order logic Murray, We are very familiar with serialization syntaxes. That is, in fact, the purpose of KIF: it is an excellent serialization syntax for logic that is ideally suited to fast, efficient parsing. The same parser used for KIF could also be adapted to a wide range of other languages as well. 'nuff said? John