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Watson Discovery

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Return the requested number of results when using de-duplicate feature

In speaking to some Discovery News customers, it would be a better user experience to provide the requested number of results to a news query even when deduplication is being used. So today, I send a news query and request 50 results. If the first...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Transferring ownership of Annotation Sets

Problem When annotation sets are created by WKS and assigned to the selected (by the Project Manager) human annotators (HA), the ownership of the annotation sets cannot be changed. This means that if a HA is temporarily or permanently unavailable ...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Need to go beyond Flat model for Entites and Dictioraries. Build custom Ontologies.

Right now we have a flato model for Entities, that is, by the way, not so well paired with dictionaries. Why don't we have the possibility to design taxnomy trees, and define 'synonyms' for each node expression (this will substitute Dictoinaries)...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Concordance should also allow to set the Subtype.

When an expression is annotated wit a EntityType and also a Subtype and the Concordance tool is used to exend the same annotations to other identical expressions it should also allow to set the Subtype according to the sampled annotation.
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Negated Operators for nested queries

The Discovery Query Language doesn't allow negated operators for nested querys (ticket existed but hast been closed). Negated operators within a nested query work fine: attributeList:(id::“KEY:9553”,value_string:!Quad-Core-Prozessor),attributeList...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Allow an optional "Callback URL" in "Add Document" Discovery API request

We, frequently, write services to poll Discovery for a document's status after we POST a document for ingestion. If, within the request body, we could include a callback URL for Discovery to asynchronously POST a completion message to, we could cu...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Data masking for ingested WDS documents

We have a client request to provide capability to mask sensitive data from ingested documents. This is to serve 2 purposes; i) general company wide data privacy requirements, ii) masking sensitive data from developers If a function was available...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

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

When you select a workspace, add workspace's name to each WKS panel

When you select a workspace, add workspace's name to each WKS panel; if you have several workspaces, the risk is to forget what workspace you are working on
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Cannot use Watson API Explorer on a Watson Discovery instance in Germany

I cannot use Watson API Explorer on a Watson Discovery instance created in Germany region; the default request URL is https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/discovery/api (unchangeable) while German URL is https://gateway-fra.watsonplatform.net/discov...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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