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Watson Discovery

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Competitive WDS pricing plans for GTS

GTS, one of our big IBM internal clients use Elastic search instead of Discovery. Their key pain point is the pricing for WDS. With Elastic Search they pay $20 / month and get similar capability and results. GTS wants to see a better pricing model...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Ability to copy discovery news into another discovery collection

This helps in building unified knowledge graphs and will help in accessing all information in a single store
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Custom news collection to train on domain specific content

Is there any plan to allow custom model deployment for News so I can extract domain specific information? Example : Risks, events, natural disasters, delays in a supply chain domain. Reason why this is very relevant is that industries and domains ...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Bulk upload for training data

We have a JSON file containing all the needed natural language queries and examples for training WDS collection. It would be helpful if there is a way to upload these bulk of queries at the same time to WDS.
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Add 'enriched:true/false' to the Fields API

Currently in tooling, Sample Queries, Insight Cards, and the soon-to-be Schema Explorer can only expose enrichments if there is a field called `enriched_text`. We need to be smarter than this so tooling can pull out any field that was enriched, no...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Allows relevancy training web tooling users to specify the relevancy value of the document

While I know the API supports a range of relevancy, the WDS web tooling for relevancy training only exposes "Relevant" or "Not Relevant" as options. Can the web tooling be changed to allow the tool's user to specify a relevancy number for each doc...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Annotation of semantic meaning of text within tables utilizing headers for context

Annotation of semantic meaning of text within tables utilizing headers for context
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Ingest Data directly through POST

The official Discovery API currently only supports document submission via multipart/form-dataPOST operations. I would like to post data directly in the ingestion request: curl -u "{username}":"{password}" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" ...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Speech to Text Integration

I have a use-case around call centers, it would be great if Watson Speech to Text was integrated as part of the Discovery pipeline
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Separates learning between the verification and the production

I would like a feature that separates learning between the verification environment and the production environment.I want to prevent the content learned through verification from being directly reflected in actual production.
about 1 month ago in Watson Discovery 1 Submitted