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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Natural Language Understanding (NLU)

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Add default entities like location and amount

The Watson conversation service has the ability to identify both numeric digits and numeric text. I would like the NLU service to have these default entities supported so that I can train models in Knowledge studio with both text and digits. Curre...
about 7 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 2 Planned for future release

Support pre-annotated document at predict time (Custom Relations)

Scope Watson Health has very good entity extractors but they are in need of relation extractors. They would like to train a custom relations model in WKS. Since they already have good entity extractors, it doesn't make sense for them to train an...
over 6 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Planned for future release

Add Finnish and Swedish support

Please, add Finnish and/or Swedish support for your NLU services.
almost 6 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Planned for future release

Consistent NLU pricing

In the same way that the Discovery pricing has been simplified, the same should happen for NLU. Also, the Lite plan includes one custom model, but the Standard plan does not. This is not consistent with other Watson services, as Discovery. This pr...
over 6 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Planned for future release

Ability to use multiple WKS custom models during enrichment

Many a time the number of entity & relation types can grow to the order of a few hundred's and hence will need to be built & maintained across multiple WKS projects. This would mean during enrichment I would need the ability to specify the...
almost 7 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 1 Planned for future release