Cortical.io Semantic Platform leverages a new approach to Natural Language Understanding (NLU) to offer meaning-based extraction, search, classification and filtering capabilities. It includes a core NLU module that converts text into semantic fingerprints and performs operations like text segmentation and keyword extraction; customized databases of domain-specific vocabulary which are trained via unsupervised machine learning; application modules like semantic search and semantic annotation to create meaning-based applications that seamless integrate in enterprise environments.