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Watson Discovery

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Project Level Security Needed

We are using Watson Discovery v2.1.2 in CP4D and we see that a user added under “Manage users” for a WD instance with role “Admin” or “User” is able to not only access all project created by other users, but is also able to delete them. Our securi...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Planned for future release

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...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

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 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Planned for future release

Watson Discovery Collection as Data Source Assets

Watson Discovery stuff should be added to be as supported in WKC. ie Collections as Data Assets , and ML models/pears etc.. as Language Models etc..
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release

Increase collection count limit within each project in WD on prem

For our customer, they want to use project as tenant level or use project to store more different type of data. So there will be more than 5 collections needed for each project. We need a way to customize collection count limit within each project...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Smart Document Understanding to produce a readable PDF from original scanned PDF

In solutions where text archives are digitized to become searchable in Watson Discovery, Smart Document Understanding is a promising new feature. However, it does not by side effect produce a searchable (text-based) PDF when OCRing a scanned PDF. ...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Crawl pages that are password protected

As a user if I have a directory of documents or web pages that are password protected I would like the web crawler to index these documents
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release

Retain new line formatting with SDU

For customers who used non-SDU collections, some of them were using "html" field to retain formatting of text. Now with SDU, this feature is no longer there. We understand that retaining formatting is not possible in SDU. However, newlines are als...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Add support for Finnish language

Finnish language as an example - we have build support for finnish and swedish language for Watson Explorer (oneWEX and AC Miner) using external language parser. There is guidelines available internally to IBM and BPs how to do it. We believe our ...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release

Hindi language support

Hindi is the most common of the Indian languages with more than half of the 1.3 Billion using the language. There are huge numbers of Hindi news/blog/social media messages that are critical for companies operating in India to be able to analyze.
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release