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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 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

An API to download the training data applied by WDS

A way to download the training data that has been applied instead of just downloading all the training provided as input to the system ? This is because we need to provide the client with the list of all training that has actually been applied to ...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

WDS highlights should honour Advanced Search quotes

During Project Daisey development, we've come across the inconsistency between highlights returned by WDS and the query. Even if the WDS Query language query contains a compound term (which project daisey uses very frequently for financial terms ...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Provide a Watson Discovery API that can do search across multiple Projects and score results

Provide a Watson Discovery API that can do search across multiple Projects and score results. We can support querying across Projects by querying individual Projects in parallel and aggregating the results. However aggregating results from indepen...
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

View Synonym and Stopword Files in Discovery v2

We should be able to see the filename for Stopwords and Synonyms, when it was uploaded, and by whom. We should be able to view the stopword or synonym file before blindly deleting it. We should also be able to save/download the file.
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

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...
about 1 year 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...
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Ability to do semantic search

Currently first level search in WDS is based on term overlap which can be improved with relevancy training. The term overlap can be improved with query expansion. Now for a query on "car", customer also wants to retrieve documents on "Vehicle", "M...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 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.
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Standard WDS crawler for websites

The standard WDS crawler supports filesystem, sharepoint and databases. Since one of the few document types that WDS can ingest is HTML, it would make sense to have the standard crawler also support HTTP and HTTPS accessible websites. https://bigb...
almost 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists