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Watson Discovery

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target facet selector of factor analysis

Timeout occurs when factor analysis is performed on a collection with many facets. If we can select and change the target facet and the target facet value (default 50) when performing factor analysis, we can avoid the problem of timeout.
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Change font color of Connection analysis

This is a request from a customer who makes heavy use of connection analysis. When displaying a large number of facet values ​​in connection analysis, the network graph becomes easier to read if the text color can be changed by facets. Also, for p...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Watson Discovery should parse the tables in PDF documents such that text in each cell is parsed with integrity and not get truncated when there's a line break

Clients expect PDF table parsing to work without errors that truncate text
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

File inclusion and file exclusion filtering in crawler

The Dutch Ministry of Defense is using Watson Discovery for text document archiving purposes as well as text document analysis from these archives. They have experience with Watson Explorer Content Analytics and are migrating to Watson Discovery. ...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

About available languages of when defining Entity/Relation in Knowledge Studio.

I would like to request Japanese added to characters that can be used for Entities/Relations in Knowledge Studio. (This request is strongly seek by our clients of a major cosmetics manufacturer that has expanded worldwide through our Project.) the...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Discovery's SDU (powerpoint note column)

Powerpoint slides have a note field below the slide. It contains important texts.I want to get the text of the note field with SDU. When I tested it, I couldn't get the text in the note field. I'd like to get the text in the note field with SDU
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Want to use the crawl date as a date in the Content Miner when using the web crawler.

The customer used oneWEX before, and has been migrating to WD Premium service since June 2021. However the customer are suffering from lack of functionality in WD. In oneWEX, when crawled data with using the web crawler, it was possible to set ...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Watson Colorblind Functionality

Currently 1 in 12 men, and 1 in 200 women have some issue with colorblindness. That is about 300 million people world-wide. If a user had a colorblind issue, Watson Discovery is unusable. I would suggest to the developers that they turn their scre...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Support for complex operators such as NEAR and BETWEEN

Our business clients currently use Watson Explorer and are able to execute queries that include NEAR and BETWEEN to find very specific documents. This functionality is not currently available in Watson Discovery and is a very big issue for our bus...
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Display document status for collection on Watson Discovery UI

Currently there is no way to track document progress for a collection on Watson Discovery UI. Sometimes documents are stuck for hours and there is no way to figure out what is happening in the background. I think there should be a very simple and ...
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration