The Cortical.io technology provides easy-to-use, powerful natural language processing tools for text filtering, classification, clustering, searching and much more. Its central component, the Cortical.io Retina, can be accessed via a simple to understand REST API and works with any kind of text.

The Retina API converts text from contracts, blogs, social media posts, product descriptions or any other source into a numerical representation of its meaning: a Semantic Fingerprint. This approach enables semantic comparisons to be performed simply and efficiently. No expert knowledge is required. No complex rule systems need be built. Just input your text and get immediate results. Tasks such as classification and streaming text filtering are much easier to perform and become really fast - enabling real-time NLP.

We currently provide a general English Retina and will soon publish Retinas for other languages (e.g. Spanish, Chinese, Russian) as well as for more business-specific domains (e.g. medical, legal). Talk to us if you want to actively capture the domain knowledge of your organization by generating your own specific Retina.

The Retina API works with any kind of text of any length (e.g. messages, user profiles, documents, webpages etc.). Just input your text and extract keywords, get context terms, disambiguate words and sentences in one click. The Retina API offers: - Quality: Higher resolution on NLP operations, full language independence; - Efficiency: Algorithm is parallelizeable and scalable, high throughput, fast responses; - Simplicity: Intuitive definition of semantic filters or classifiers, no configuration or parameter tweaking.