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watsonx Assistant

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Horizontal scrolling of the dialog window

When you have a deep tree with many child nodes in chain the deeper nodes are hidden in the right part, specially if you have opened the "Try it our" panel.It would be much more convenient to have the ability to scroll horizontally through the dia...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add comments in nodes

The dialog nodes maintain logic of the conversation flow. This also requires to be maintained in an ongoing way. It needs to have an ability to add user comments. These comments will help in maintaining the dialogs. Currently there is no way to ad...
almost 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Planned for future release

Confidence fine tuning for intent/entity detection

In order to make sure that specific intent/entity is detected instead of another one less important we want to fine tune the confidence level for each individual intent/entity. Some of the intents/entities could have a more restrained dataset, hen...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Increase the number of possible annotation

We have a dataset containing a "business-object" entity that can have different possible values which has about 13880 annotations in different intent samples. This object will allow to detect the leave request/spot award/cost center/personal detai...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Allow the confidence threshold criteria for disambiguation to be configurable

Currently WA (premium) uses a calculation of confidence within 55% of top intent for disambiguation candidates. This is too sensitive for some training sets (the range increases with higher confidence levels, triggering disambiguation more often t...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

disable dialog node

One of the issues i have when i test things out is i often need to delete a dialog node to verify if something works. Deleting a dialog node with a lot of configurations such as conditional checks, detailed answer, jump to conditions etc is making...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 3 Not under consideration

Common Pattern Nodes

Add the possibility to jump to common pattern nodes/node groups (e. g. "Please enter your customer number/adress/phone number") from anywhere in the dialog flow and dynamically jump back, based on where you came from. This could speed up dialog d...
over 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

Watson Skill Tooling should provide option to import or copy paste dialog nodes

We publish Chatbot watson workspace every release with new dialog nodes , entity & intents to support new features. Each of our customers have their own instance of chatbot / workspace and they also add new capability to this bot by creating n...
about 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

Ability to configure one entity as a synonym for another entity

This will enable configuring WA entities with less effort. There are scenarios where one entity and all its synonyms can be applied to another entity with additional synonyms (Mostly in a hierarchical entity model). As of now we have to manually c...
almost 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

enhance jointoArray() method to allow for inline modification

Currently, the joinToArray() Method at the link below, only only supports access to properties directly without further modification. This idea is to allow for modification of properties before merging into a template. This would allow for methods...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Future consideration