The study and understanding of the meaning of words and phrases in a language, involving the interpretation of natural language to extract the underlying concepts, ideas, and relationships.

• Information Retrieval
• Computational Linguistics
• Programming Languages
• Artificial Intelligence
• Web Development
• Information Extraction
• Cognitive Science
• Machine Learning

For example, semantic analysis of the sentence ‘The dog chased the cat’ can help identify the entities (dog and cat), their relationships (chased), and the context (a scene with a pet and an animal).

• Managing and evolving the semantic data model