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Watson Discovery

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

Add version information to "Use this collection in API" drop down

Adding the version information to the drop down would help those moving back and forth between API and tooling.
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Support leading unstructured data sources across a variety of market segments

Watson Discovery is highly oriented to search and text analytics use cases which revolve heavily around unstructured data sources. Currently the Watson Discovery service lacks out of the box connectivity to a large number of key data sources inclu...
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Functionality already exists

Allow tooling users to be able to save queries inside of tooling

When iterating in Discovery, especially when experimenting with multiple and more complex queries it would be very useful to be able to save my query once I have it in suitable shape so I can iterate on another one without losing my work.
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Make sentence limitation optional

Right now, period + whitespace terminate a sentence and makes it impossible to set relations. A ml-models performance is lowered significantly by the inconsistency of documents that one is using it one, for instance e-mails. Including workarounds...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Competitive Barometer to assess the digital competitiveness of IBM's offerings compared to the top 4-6 competitors in the market using WDS.

Automate the IBM offerings comparison with our competitors generating insights on various parameters like if trial version is available, how is the purchase and provisioning process, Extract quickly the product functional features from the respect...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Kindly make documentations available of the distinctions between the old and new when there are modifications.

No description provided
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Add support for the Dutch Language

Today we have support for the Dutch language in Watson Assistant, Watson Knowledge Studio and also in Watson Explorer Content Analytics. For customers moving to the cloud for content exploration and knowledge use cases, support across the productp...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

Allow entities to be exported to Watson Assistant

Today you can export the trained model to NLU and the Discovery Service We want the Watson Assistant to collect entities (and intents) during the conversation and use this information to generate a better query for the Discovery Service Today we d...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration