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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Watson Discovery

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Allow wildcards to be used in upper case and in phrases

Currently, wildcards can only be used with lower case. If you search for title:IBM* this doesn't work. It doesn't bring anything. If you search for title:ibm* then this brings both documents that have words with the prefix ibm or IBM. Allowing t...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Return the requested number of results when using de-duplicate feature

In speaking to some Discovery News customers, it would be a better user experience to provide the requested number of results to a news query even when deduplication is being used. So today, I send a news query and request 50 results. If the first...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Concordance should also allow to set the Subtype.

When an expression is annotated wit a EntityType and also a Subtype and the Concordance tool is used to exend the same annotations to other identical expressions it should also allow to set the Subtype according to the sampled annotation.
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Multiple addition of sample questions in training

Training of Natural Language Query in Discovery: Every sample question for training can be added only once. In a real world scenario with automated feedback, similar questions / training data will be added more than one time only. Right now the tr...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

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...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 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...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 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
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

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...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 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
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 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 ...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration