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Watson Discovery

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Enhanced User Management

Companies with multiple and/or large teams expect the user management capabilities of the services they use to support their organization structure. Kay capabilities expected from an enterprise solution: Users assigned roles - directly or via ass...
almost 7 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

Watson Colorblind Functionality

Currently 1 in 12 men, and 1 in 200 women have some issue with colorblindness. That is about 300 million people world-wide. If a user had a colorblind issue, Watson Discovery is unusable. I would suggest to the developers that they turn their scre...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future 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...
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under 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 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Configure level for search

Hello, I need to limit the web crawler search to the first level, but there isn't any way to configure the search level
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Detect duplicates

Hello, I have a Web Crawler and I need to exclude duplicates from search results
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Add Table Understanding as a feature for WDS on Cloud/Cloud Pak for Data

This feature, where customers will be able to get direct answers within tables, aligns with the vision of intelligent document processing and will enable them to easily extract exact answers and find hidden insights whenever their data includes lo...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

The attributes after digestion of document for different connectors should be same

If you use IBM crawler today to crawl sharepoint, salesforce or public sites, the attributes in the document are not standard. At least the attributes in the query result. Take for example the URL property for public site, I need to read in metada...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to recognize hand written text and fillable PDFs using SDU

SDU works really well for documents with printed text, but it doesn't recognize text in hand-written/hand-filled documents or forms. It also doesn't recognize text in fillable PDFs. It would be nice to have SDU extract text from fillable PDFs and ...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

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