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Watson Discovery Service (WDS)

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Delete button for individual docs/results

Currently there is no simple or interactive way to delete documents within the WDS toolkit making it difficult for non-developers to manage the WDS corpus without having to use curl/sdk/api. While it is easy to upload individual documents via drag...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 6 Future consideration

Add Metadata to Existing Document

This feature will save lots of computation and scripting
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 3 Future consideration

Need capability to backup and restore collections across environments

#SalesForce, #ServiceNow, #Watson Teacher Advisor : In WDS, there are No backup/restore tooling for collections. This is affecting migration of collections across environments such as from dev to staging/testing and then to production. This is aff...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 1 Planned for future release

Ability to clone collection from one environment to another

We have some collections in Dallas and others in Tokyo to secure the redundancy. All collections must have completely the same ranking as each other. For that reason, we need to clone collections of Watson Discovery from one environment to another.
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 1 Future consideration

Ability to split paragraphs inside a document

Several documents rely on a structure that leverages a single section for a bunch of unrelated paragraphs, we'd like to do document splitting based on paragraph marks at ingestion time. This could be accomplished by allowing other tags (not only H...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 4 Future consideration

Fuzzy phrase query

The customer requires phrase query using fuzzy character "∼". For instance, "homicides with firearms"∼1.
5 months ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 0 Submitted

Provide summarisation capabilities

On knowledge management use case customers are asking for a solution that whilst retrieving pointers to relevant documents can provide a summary of the docs themselves. Customer in Banking and Insurance industries are the most interested, and in g...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 0 Future consideration

Allow custom IDs for documents when adding them to the discovery index

Whenever we face discovery setups with multiple stages or environments, its very hard and time consuming to manage multiple copies of the same document as discovery generates a new, different ID for each document in each collection. It would make ...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 1 Functionality already exists

Relevancy Training Evaluation Tooling & Metrics Dashboard

It will be good to have a capability in the tooling to do a train/test evaluation on a WDS collection and have the nDCG & recall metrics visible in the dashboard
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 0 Future consideration

Not recreation WeX Facets in Discovery

Currently, the customer has more than 40 facets that using per facet multiple dictionaries or even regex rules plus dictionaries. Those scenarios are not able to be set in discovery. The customer is exporting each facet as pear file to be importe...
6 months ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 0 Submitted