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Watson Discovery

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Update Entity Type Version 2 for NLU pre annotation for supported languages

Although the latest version of NLU use Entity Type Version 2 for Italian and some other languages, WKS still uses NLU Version 1 for all languages, not just Italian. Until WKS will use V1 version for pre annotation the new V2 entities will not be ...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Smart Document Understanding returns document structure

Right now, the output of SDU is aggregated into a JSON array. It would be great if SDU could return the parsed structure of the document. This way we can know for sure if this word in the document is a 'Table of Content' type, or 'Subtitle' type.
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

Extract insights from an image using smart document understanding (WDS)

IBM Sellers, Offering managers and marketing team can extract Use case1: Extract the company location in the magic quadrant like if IBM is listed in Leader's quadrant (Currently WDS can extract the list of companies present in the image) Use case2...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Include Query parameter in results from the query and event log

When we query the /logs for a particular query ID, we can get the natural_language_query paratmer returned which contains the query string. { customer_id: '', environment_id: 'XXXX', natural_language_query: 'are there any capital metrics?', query_...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Stop words should not impact phrases in Discovery Query Language

WDS enables you to define your own set of stop words. We recently noticed that the stop words are removed from searches even when using phrases with the Discovery Language syntax. For example if we search for the phrase "we the people" and we and ...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Add support for Finnish language

Finnish language as an example - we have build support for finnish and swedish language for Watson Explorer (oneWEX and AC Miner) using external language parser. There is guidelines available internally to IBM and BPs how to do it. We believe our ...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release

LIBOR replacement in ISDA contracts between Banks and their clients

Most derivatives contracts currently written use ISDA contractual language and most of these also refer to LIBOR as the benchmark interest rates. By 2021 it has been mandated that LIBOR will be replaced, so there is a massive repapering exercise a...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Ability to undo completion of documents

I want to re-open a completed document, so that I can correct annotations after discussing with colleagues.
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Add standardization functionally to Task record(s) compare screen in Inspector

When viewing a tasks in Inspector, the compare screen of the attributes is not applying the standardization rules and therefor will indicate attributes are different when in fact to the algorithm, the are considered the same. We would like for ins...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Delete Documents from collection by condition

It would be handy to be able to delete documents from a collection by defining conditions. Something I would do in a sql-database like this: DELETE FROM collection_name WHERE publication_date < date('2018-01-01')
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration