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Watson Discovery

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Smart Document Understanding - Option to choose the documents that I want to annotate

The SDU only presents 40 documents to annotate in the drop-down list and often, there are documents that we need to annotate and do not appear in the list due to this limitation. The suggestion is that instead of having a list of 40 documents to a...
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Return Metadata with Get Document Details

The current (v2) Discovery API (version date: 2023-03-31) does not return any document metadata when providing Document Details. We use metadata for classification and when returning results to WatsonX.ai and WatsonX Assistant for conversational s...
30 days ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Display facets on the initial screen

Currently, no facets are displayed on the initial screen.Facets are displayed when you perform a search.Could you please display the facets on the initial screen?
3 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

select a facet and immediately change the display to the facet that is relevant to the selected information

For example, let's say a facet is the "sports.types_of_sports" field, and it offers the following options: [ ] basketball [ ] baseball [ ] football And the neighboring facet is the "sports.equipment" field, which offers the following options...
3 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Apply Retries For Document Status API in Collection Webhook

we upload a document in Watson Discovery Collection. Document gets processed by Watson Discovery Once it gets available, document status is received on the registered url in collection As informed by IBM dev team(Added attachement for Dev Team Res...
about 1 month ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

API to automate webcrawl in Watson Discovery

Please make an API available in Discovery v2 where you specify a web crawl configuration with URLs programmatically. Defining the maximum links is good but how can i be sure if crawls all the sites that i want it to.
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Increase document size limit for WD

Currently maximum document size, which can be processed by WD for CP4D is 32Mb. It is very small size limit considering any document which may have embedded images can be much larger. Even WEX limits were higher (up to 128Mb for WEX AC). Please co...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Ability to disable or customize stemming

Watson Discovery uses stemming to identify valid matches. Based on our experience it appears that stemming is applied in both Natural Language Queries and also Discovery Language Queries. It seems to also enforced in phrase searching. This is usef...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 13 Not under consideration

Project Level Security Needed

We are using Watson Discovery v2.1.2 in CP4D and we see that a user added under “Manage users” for a WD instance with role “Admin” or “User” is able to not only access all project created by other users, but is also able to delete them. Our securi...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Planned for future release

Ability re-process documents without re-ingestion

Currently we need to re-ingest documents to update any enrichment. This is specifically not very practical when we have WKS model involved. If the model is refined & updated, we need to re-ingest the docs. This is very annoying for customers h...
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release