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Watson Discovery

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Need access control at project level of Watson Discovery

Customer will use Watson Discovery as the NLP solution. Customer has very specific requirement that group A can only see data set 1, while group B only see data set 2, but in WD, all people can see all projects (including all the files/ data) with...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

target facet selector of factor analysis

Timeout occurs when factor analysis is performed on a collection with many facets. If we can select and change the target facet and the target facet value (default 50) when performing factor analysis, we can avoid the problem of timeout.
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Change font color of Connection analysis

This is a request from a customer who makes heavy use of connection analysis. When displaying a large number of facet values ​​in connection analysis, the network graph becomes easier to read if the text color can be changed by facets. Also, for p...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

The Numeral subfacet of the Part of Speech facet should be placed under the Noun subfacet.

In Japanese, some word appear in both Numeral subfacet and General Noun subfacet. So, We need to analyze twice, using each of the umeral subfacet and the General Noun subfacet. I know that it is very hard to strictly classify General Nouns and Num...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Support WKS subtypes

When uploading a trained WKS model as machine learning enrichment, only entities are detected and indexed, but not subtypes (on WD for CP4D). Please also consider supporting subtypes in the planned real-time NLP feature.
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

IBM to enhance the Filters for Sharepoint connector so that besides specifying which file extensions to crawl (viz. .aspx pages) one should be able to specify exclude ListItemCollection pages

This enhancement will allow more fine grained control over which items to crwal using Watson Discovery v2 Sharepoint connector. For one use case, there are 11362 ListItemCollection type .aspx pages and 1000 real .aspcx pages. Currently Sharepoint ...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Exclusion of HTML navigation elements in webcrawl

As users of WDS are currently not able to use SDU on crawled web documents, it is impossible to use the field definition and exclusion function WDS provides to exclude unwanted results from the index. In our case, website navigation and footers cr...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Delete All Documents API

Right now if you want to delete all documents, you either need to delete the collection (which could mean code changes to point to a new ID), or you need to write a script to delete every document one by one which is time consuming.
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Improve Smart Document Uderstanding processing time

Real-life scenario: the user uploads a document and the extracted info are needed as input for another tool or ML model (real time scoring is needed). The customer experience suffers from the waiting time. The processing time of one document is to...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 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...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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