VERT: Versatile Entity Recognition & Disambiguation Toolkit

The Knowledge Computing group at Microsoft Research Asia aims to build machines that can make good use of knowledge to empower every person on the planet to achieve more. Natural language processing, information extraction, table interpretation, and knowledge representation & reasoning are four main focus areas. Natural language processing (NLP) analyzes, understands, and generates languages for effective and efficient human-machine communication. Information extraction (IE) recognizes entity mentions, mention types, named entities, and entity-entity…