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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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Add a hook in ingestion API to get latest document security information from 3rd party API

If ingestion API supports adding a hook or callback to add an "access control meta-data" enrichment, it could stream integration with custom content with strict permission requirements. Our customer can provide us with an API (hosted in their site...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Negated Operators for nested queries

The Discovery Query Language doesn't allow negated operators for nested querys (ticket existed but hast been closed). Negated operators within a nested query work fine: attributeList:(id::“KEY:9553”,value_string:!Quad-Core-Prozessor),attributeList...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

When you select a workspace, add workspace's name to each WKS panel

When you select a workspace, add workspace's name to each WKS panel; if you have several workspaces, the risk is to forget what workspace you are working on
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Query results for entities extracted with a WKS should include a list of all mentions that are in the entities coreference chain

Currently entities are reported in query results with only one "text" field, even if they are part of a coreference chain (and hence count > 1). This is problematic if you need to search parts of the query results for this entity since it may h...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Check image urls for broken links before returning them

Hello, I have been using the " main_image_url " ability of discovery to provide a visual overlook to the terms we are searching for. Obviously, for all content Watson ingests, the link may be removed and hence wouldn't be accessible. To provide ...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Add an email based notification for Human Annotators, Project Managers for task assignments, submitted/rejected/accepted annotations etc.

This was a client question during a WKS Learn workshop. They wanted WKS to send a email notification to HAs, PMs when tasks were assigned, submitted for review and accepted/rejected. They would also like an opt-in/out feature for such notifications
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Improve Navigation to guide user through linear workflow

There is a clear sequential workflow to annotation, but some of the steps are buried in sub-menus in a completely non-intuitive way. The interface should guide the user through all of the sequential steps intuitively.
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 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 ov...
almost 7 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...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration