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Watson Discovery

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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
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release

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...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Stemming instead of lemmatization for exact match search in Spanish

Customer needs exact match search, same as WeX Content Analytics. R&D teams has given a manual workaround that has to be carried out for all projects. It solved some issues such as Spanish accents and missing characters, but there are still ...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Interpreting Oracle CLOB columns as CSV files

Currently crawler configuration reads CLOB columns as CVS files. The customer has the TS010224689 PMR. Support and R&D teams have given a manual workaround that has to be carried out for all projects. The customer requires a solution since a...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Facet hierarchies - groups

Admin cannot set facet hierarchy for all users. The current procedure is create a facet hierarchy per user, further the worse issue is that hierarchy is only kept in the browser cache.
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Handle roles per instance

They need admin role and read only role per Discovery instance. It is a must due to several analysts require to access data without set any configuration of the project or collection. It is a must
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Allow updating metadata without updating the document in "Update Document" Discovery API request

At this time, we need upload the same document due to update only metadata. I want to update metadata of a document without updating the document because it takes a long time to process the document uploaded.
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Stop training an annotator once the process has started

It's somewhat easy to accidentally train an annotator and it wastes 10-15 minutes if this happens. A "stop training" button would be helpful. Alternatively, a "Are you sure you want to train your annotator?" prompt. I've done this several times, b...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Support for complex operators such as NEAR and BETWEEN

Our business clients currently use Watson Explorer and are able to execute queries that include NEAR and BETWEEN to find very specific documents. This functionality is not currently available in Watson Discovery and is a very big issue for our bus...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Ability to connect OWL ontology to Discovery JSONs

Ability to connect OWL ontology to Discovery JSONs This to imply an instance of an ontology / knowledge graph where enrichments from WDS would be associated with nodes of an ontology and returned from an WDS query? Currently WDS only works with e...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

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