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Watson Discovery

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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

Query results for entities extracted with a WKS should include a list of all mentions that are in the entities coreference chain

Currently entities are reported in query results with only one "text" field, even if they are part of a coreference chain (and hence count > 1). This is problematic if you need to search parts of the query results for this entity since it may h...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Allow for Export of Ground Truth to CSV file or JSON

WKS is used to train models for deployment to WDS and solutions are built around WDS. Training these models is time consuming and slow. Often in building solutions that incorporate WDS, it would be useful to be able to have a set of "ideal" ground...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 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

Add Metadata to Existing Document

This feature will save lots of computation and scripting
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Adding custom answers to relevancy training (answers not in the top 100)

Since WDS does Top K retrieval it is not always a case that relevant answers appear in the top 100. So a capability to add custom answers to relevancy training will be helpful
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists