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Watson Discovery

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Standard WDS crawler for websites

The standard WDS crawler supports filesystem, sharepoint and databases. Since one of the few document types that WDS can ingest is HTML, it would make sense to have the standard crawler also support HTTP and HTTPS accessible websites. https://bigb...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

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

Enhanced User Management

Companies with multiple and/or large teams expect the user management capabilities of the services they use to support their organization structure. Kay capabilities expected from an enterprise solution: Users assigned roles - directly or via ass...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

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...
about 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...
about 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 ...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Easier to add training data for large collections

The current UI tooling is good for a small collection that does not need to migrate. If the tooling has a thousand or more documents, it can be difficult to manage. It should be possible to ingest a training configuration that is not doc-id specif...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Ability to query number of pages in a collection and get more info about it

The point is to understand what has been loaded in WDS. Knowing the number of pages within the collection as well as the number of pages per documents, the names of the documents in the collection. In a nutshell what is a collection about. The num...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration