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Watson Discovery

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Multiple rankers per collection

Are there any plans to suppport more than one ranker for a given Discovery collection. This would help us train and test a "ranker B" while "ranker A" is in production. The alternative that we see is to create duplicate/synched Discovery collectio...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Support for custom Tokenization dictionaries for other languages

We need the ability to create custom tokenization dictionary for English language and eventually other languages. As an example, my current client need to keep the following string as one token "930E-2". The query is not making difference between ...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

System_Notices for Training should be linked to the list of Queries on the Relevancy Training UI

The System_notices that are available for the training data should be linked to the Queries. The query should indicate that there is a system notice associated with it and should be able provide an option to check the notice there in the UI.
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Capability to add filters with questions while adding training via tooling

There is API capability to add filters to training data but the SMEs who are not technical will need the same capability in tooling
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Approval flag based relevancy input

If we have to give the capability for the users to train the system then it will be better if the training API has an approval parameter which could be set to false to start with and then an SME could review those ratings to check if it could go i...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced User Management

Companies with multiple and/or large teams expect the user management capabilities of the services they use to support their organization structure. Kay capabilities expected from an enterprise solution: Users assigned roles - directly or via ass...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Stop training an annotator once the process has started

It's somewhat easy to accidentally train an annotator and it wastes 10-15 minutes if this happens. A "stop training" button would be helpful. Alternatively, a "Are you sure you want to train your annotator?" prompt. I've done this several times, b...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Ability to connect OWL ontology to Discovery JSONs

Ability to connect OWL ontology to Discovery JSONs This to imply an instance of an ontology / knowledge graph where enrichments from WDS would be associated with nodes of an ontology and returned from an WDS query? Currently WDS only works with e...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Web Crawl or Connector for Atlassian Confluent

There is no support for web crawler or connector to integrate with Atlassian Confluent.
6 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Create an out-of-the-box connector to Microsoft Dynamics

MS Dynamics is an important and prominent data source that clients are looking to crawl with Watson Discovery
8 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted