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Watson Discovery

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Add an email based notification for Human Annotators, Project Managers for task assignments, submitted/rejected/accepted annotations etc.

This was a client question during a WKS Learn workshop. They wanted WKS to send a email notification to HAs, PMs when tasks were assigned, submitted for review and accepted/rejected. They would also like an opt-in/out feature for such notifica...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

End user notification when added to a WKS instance

Currently a user who is added using the Manage users WKS, does not get notified that they have added to a Workspace. So they do not know to go to the tooling. Also, if the user's default bluemix region is not Germany or US South, they have to chan...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Improve Navigation to guide user through linear workflow

There is a clear sequential workflow to annotation, but some of the steps are buried in sub-menus in a completely non-intuitive way. The interface should guide the user through all of the sequential steps intuitively.
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Bring back Host Rank to enable filtering out unreliable sources

Host Rank allowed for filtering out sources with a low score. Without it, offensive, inappropriate, and fake sources creep into the News query results. The current mechanism of submitting individual source complaints is ineffective.
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Re-add keyword sentiment to the tooling

I've had two client situations where the classifying keywords by their sentiment in the WDS tooling would be relevant. One was for an ES Learn where the client wanted to see the keywords with negative sentiment in Amazon reviews and although we ar...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Delete button for individual docs/results

Currently there is no simple or interactive way to delete documents within the WDS toolkit making it difficult for non-developers to manage the WDS corpus without having to use curl/sdk/api. While it is easy to upload individual documents via drag...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 6 Not under consideration

Show highlights in passeges

It would be nice if also passages can show the relevant keywords for the search. Normally in the UI I would just show the passages and would be nice to show where the search result come from
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

WKS not provide perfect sentences

(QA ticket CS0013799 Created) There are cases where WKS's Japanese sentence recognition is incorrect. In Japanese, there are cases where () is included in long sentences. When "。" Is described in this (), WKS considers that the sentence is...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Provide Launch option from Dashboard

Currently I need to choose discovery instance from dashboard, then click on launch option from instance page to navigate to discovery tool. I can navigate service page when I need to manage credentials, connections or plan. We can provide launch o...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

WDS Deployment utility

Can we have some utility or a UI based tool which makes deployment from one environment to another environment easy? Currently we have to manually move the complete corpus, training data and model to a new environment, which is time consuming and ...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration