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Natural Language Understanding (NLU)

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Remove session cookie from NLU calls

When I use postman I am returned a cookie that allows me to make unauthenticated calls into the NLU system. This leads to a vulnerable API due to session hijacking. [1] To test this I made a call to get a list of models, removed my auth head, and ...
over 6 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 1 Not under consideration

Add Finnish and Swedish support

Please, add Finnish and/or Swedish support for your NLU services.
about 5 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Planned for future release

Support for Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) Language

No description provided
over 5 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 2 Not under consideration

Consistent NLU pricing

In the same way that the Discovery pricing has been simplified, the same should happen for NLU. Also, the Lite plan includes one custom model, but the Standard plan does not. This is not consistent with other Watson services, as Discovery. This ...
over 5 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Planned for future release

Restore types for concepts

Alchemy had types associated with concepts, but Discovery does not. It was useful to filter returned concepts to remove people and locations, particularly if we were displaying those elsewhere. The people returned as concepts, for example, were of...
almost 6 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Not under consideration

Relation argument offsets relative to the html

The relation argument offsets come back relative to the Discovery text, but if you want to do something useful with those offsets it would probably be to add tags to the html. Computing the corresponding offset in the html is possible, but inconve...
almost 6 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Not under consideration

Developing new languages for Central Europe (Czech, Bulgarian, Slovakian, Magyar)

Hi, a major bank, KBC, is working across Europe and wants to deploy one AI technology across the group. They've started off with Watson Conversation service in Dutch and are very happy with the quality. Considering WDS is coming now in Dutch, th...
over 6 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to use multiple WKS custom models during enrichment

Many a time the number of entity & relation types can grow to the order of a few hundred's and hence will need to be built & maintained across multiple WKS projects. This would mean during enrichment I would need the ability to specify the...
over 6 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 1 Planned for future release