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Make it possible to explicitly kick off the ranker training process

Currently the ranker model building kicks off some indeterminate amount of time after training samples are added to WDS. Would like the ability to: add a batch of training data trigger the training process poll the collection details api endpoi...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Service for Users to Create Japanese Morpheme Dictionary/Japanese Stop-words Dictionary for Every Account at Any Time.

Japanese morphological analysis seems very difficult because we write the document in Japanese without spaces(e.g. 私の友達は食べることが大好きです。).That’s why my idea is to create Japanese morpheme dictionary/Japanese stop-words dictionary for every account at ...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Add state to Discovery Service model training process after adding training samples

This was reported as an issue in the python sdk: https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/python-sdk/issues/339 The issue has the following description : I am adding training samples to Discovery Service from our training set in batches and t...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Developing new languages for Central Europe (Czech, Bulgarian, Slovakian, Magyar)

Hi, a major bank, KBC, is working across Europe and wants to deploy one AI technology across the group. They've started off with Watson Conversation service in Dutch and are very happy with the quality. Considering WDS is coming now in Dutch,...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Encrypt the WDS password in the Crawler discovery_service.conf

The crawler config file is plain text on the file system. config\discovery\discovery_service.conf In this file it contains credentials to access WDS. There are also config files for the crawled source system. config\connectors\database.conf config...
over 6 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.
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Ability to turn on / off the greedy feature in Rule based annotator

The rule matches the longest set of tokens from beginning of a sentence ("greedy" way). However, there may be scenarios where I want to match the 1st occurrence of the entity from beginning of a sentence. Please see this forum discussion explainin...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Add sort UI elements to the tooling

When using the tooling, not all of the API parameters can be configured. The sort functionality (which is quite important) can't be configured in the query building view. Add an additional widget, which allows to select fields and the sort oder (a...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Extend document removal API to work with removal queries

There have been several issues discovered when working with discovery and very dynamic date / agile prototyping. It is not possible (currently) to remove multiple documents, just 1 at a time. Often in the beginning of a project the data is ingeste...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Custom news collection to train on domain specific content

Is there any plan to allow custom model deployment for News so I can extract domain specific information? Example : Risks, events, natural disasters, delays in a supply chain domain. Reason why this is very relevant is that industries and domains ...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration