Semantic analysis refers to extracting meaningful information such as context, emotions, and sentiments from unstructured text. It allows computers to understand the meaning of sentences, paragraphs, and documents by analyzing individual words and their definitions, as well as the context in which they are used. Key aspects of semantic analysis include part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition, and relationship extraction. Machine learning algorithms can also be used to perform automated semantic analysis by training on large text samples.