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Watson Discovery

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Request for Increasing the Synonym Registration Limit in Watson Discovery

This request is related to WDS-I-581. Currently, the maximum number of synonyms you can register in Watson Discovery is limited to 5,000 terms. Would it be possible to increase this limit? Background: We aim to address Japanese orthographic variat...
13 days ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Request for Improved Orthographic Variation Handling in Japanese through Morphological Analysis in Watson Discovery

When using Watson Discovery for Japanese natural language searches, we are experiencing issues due to variations in okurigana (Japanese verb endings) and spelling differences, which prevent certain search results from appearing as expected. For ex...
13 days ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Smart Document Understanding - Option to choose the documents that I want to annotate

The SDU only presents 40 documents to annotate in the drop-down list and often, there are documents that we need to annotate and do not appear in the list due to this limitation. The suggestion is that instead of having a list of 40 documents to a...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Screen scroll control when Waton is providing an answer

Sometimes, Watson's answers are very long. It will be extremely useful to be able to control de screen scroll display so the user could read the early responses from Watson's answers. Right now, if Watson is generating a very long answer and I wan...
about 1 month ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

API to automate webcrawl in Watson Discovery

Please make an API available in Discovery v2 where you specify a web crawl configuration with URLs programmatically. Defining the maximum links is good but how can i be sure if crawls all the sites that i want it to.
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Display facets on the initial screen

Currently, no facets are displayed on the initial screen.Facets are displayed when you perform a search.Could you please display the facets on the initial screen?
5 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

select a facet and immediately change the display to the facet that is relevant to the selected information

For example, let's say a facet is the "sports.types_of_sports" field, and it offers the following options: [ ] basketball [ ] baseball [ ] football And the neighboring facet is the "sports.equipment" field, which offers the following options...
5 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Return Metadata with Get Document Details

The current (v2) Discovery API (version date: 2023-03-31) does not return any document metadata when providing Document Details. We use metadata for classification and when returning results to WatsonX.ai and WatsonX Assistant for conversational s...
3 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Apply Retries For Document Status API in Collection Webhook

we upload a document in Watson Discovery Collection. Document gets processed by Watson Discovery Once it gets available, document status is received on the registered url in collection As informed by IBM dev team(Added attachement for Dev Team Res...
3 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Web Crawl or Connector for Atlassian Confluent

There is no support for web crawler or connector to integrate with Atlassian Confluent.
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted