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Watson Discovery

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Add ability to recognize hand written text and fillable PDFs using SDU

SDU works really well for documents with printed text, but it doesn't recognize text in hand-written/hand-filled documents or forms. It also doesn't recognize text in fillable PDFs. It would be nice to have SDU extract text from fillable PDFs and ...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

API to inspect collection status in detail.

The WD for CP4D has API v2 which does not have listing collection details. Sometimes collection stops processing documents and not sure what is the collection status for trouble shooting.
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Enable the encoding to handle text files in ShiftJIS code.

There're a lot of ShiftJIs text files stored on Windows File System which we're going to crawl, but currently there's no way to change the encoding setting in WD(on CP4D), so all of them are garbled ( by default they are read as UTF-8 text). Pleas...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Enable multiple language collections

We have many customers in Europe who have content in multiple languages. In WEX AC and oneWEX this was not a problem as the first step in the WEX analysis pipeline is to determine the main langaueg for a document and then apply the relevant out of...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Discovery highlight feature should exclude text inside image / anchor tags in html

Discovery highlight feature should exclude text inside image / anchor tags in html Currently it searches entire html for highlight feature an inserts <em> </em> tags inside img tags or anchor tags also which then cause issues when the ...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Defect in parsing of webhose news site scraping

webhose provides articles scraped from news sites and the parsing of these sites is used for Watson NLU enrichments Some urls contain additional articles that are extraneous to the main article. The parser includes this extraneous text as part of ...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Build Discovery support for automatic correction of mis-spellings instead of requiring Query expansion to explicitely train Discovery

We are an OEM partner of IBM and have built a Chatbot offering with Watson Discovery search integration. Feedback from one of our Customer's indicates that they are looking for built-in Watson Discovery support for correcting mis-spellings / offer...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Handle rating scale conversions between Documents rated using API and documents rated using Static relevancy training

Handle rating scale conversions between Documents rated using API and documents rated using Static relevancy training. We are an OEM partner of IBM and have built a Chatbot integration with Watson Discovery search. The end Users of Chatbot rate in...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Discovery web crawler - need support for crawling data from protected sites requiring authentication

We have an OEM aggrement with IBM for Watson services, Our internal Customers are evaluating crawling data from their web sites hosting Web content to Watson Discovery collection. The Watson Discovery connector for web crawling supports crawling d...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Planned for future release

Database crawler does not support multiple occurences of large object datatype columns or fields

Currently only one occurrence of the following fields can be crawled using the Watson Discovery Database crawler. We need to be able to crawl multiple occurrences - ​java.sql.Types.BINARY java.sql.Types.BLOB java.sql.Types.CLOB java.sql.Types.LONG...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration