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Watson Discovery

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Hindi language support

Hindi is the most common of the Indian languages with more than half of the 1.3 Billion using the language. There are huge numbers of Hindi news/blog/social media messages that are critical for companies operating in India to be able to analyze.
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release

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

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

Enable SAML based authentication for Watson Discovery Web Crawler

Hi - We would like to have IBM enable SAML based authentication for the Watson Discovery web crawler. Most of the web pages we'd like to crawl here at CVS are protected by SAML authentication... however, Watson Discovery does not support SAML auth...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Include multiplier operator on filter

The multiplier operator only works on the query paramter. -https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery?topic=discovery-query-operators#multiplier It would be useful if it could be used on the filter paramter or at least specify in the documentation that ...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Functionality already exists

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

Watson WKS multiple document error display

Would it be possible to have Watson WKS display all documents that werent able to be read rather than having to load the same document set multiple times just to find all the documents that are corrupt/ troublesome? The WKS document loading functi...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration