Named Entity Recognition (NER) is one of the features offered by Azure Cognitive Service for Language, a collection of machine learning and AI algorithms in the cloud for developing intelligent applications that involve written language. The NER feature can identify and categorize entities in unstructured text. For example: people, places, organizations, and quantities.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/language-service/named-entity-recognition/overview
