When I was in there in Microsoft Research, our team was working on related efforts. But, yes, while pieces have shipped into products, MS never released a complete solution at the time.

Some links that might be of interest:

- Table semantics: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/table-inter...

- Entity semantics (video): https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AMIdbT4yVFaw2Kk&cid=A6...

- Natural Language in Spreadsheets: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/gridbook/