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Watson Discovery

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Multiple rankers per collection

Are there any plans to suppport more than one ranker for a given Discovery collection. This would help us train and test a "ranker B" while "ranker A" is in production. The alternative that we see is to create duplicate/synched Discovery collectio...
about 4 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 ...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

How to check API usage

Situation/Task: Request to get the number of queries for Enterprise plan instance. Result: Currently there's no function to get the number of queries if the instance has unlimited queries.
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Clear instructions/information panel on using Document Classifier trained with custom dictionaries

Document classifiers are extremely valuable in programmatically sorting document types based on its content. The document classifier in WDS can be trained solely on parts-of-speech or in combination with additional assets such as custom dictionari...
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

A function that brings up words that are similar in usage from a certain word

< Assumed procedure> (1) Prepare the original word (seed) (including nouns, verbs, adjectives, and sentence expressions if possible)(2) Estimate and output words that are used in the same way as Seed from the input sentences.(3) Check the wo...
about 1 year 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

Support for custom Tokenization dictionaries for other languages

We need the ability to create custom tokenization dictionary for English language and eventually other languages. As an example, my current client need to keep the following string as one token "930E-2". The query is not making difference between ...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

System_Notices for Training should be linked to the list of Queries on the Relevancy Training UI

The System_notices that are available for the training data should be linked to the Queries. The query should indicate that there is a system notice associated with it and should be able provide an option to check the notice there in the UI.
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Improve visualization of Entity Roles, Entity Subtypes, Mention Types, and Mention Classes

When annotating a role or subtype, there is no visual cue for the Entity Role, the Entity SubType, the Mention Type, or the Mention Class. There could perhaps be colored icons appearing below the annotation to display this
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Knowledge Studio support for commonly accepted CSV formats

Problem The current implementation of Watson Knowledge Studio imposes very strict (narrow) limitations on the CSV content format that is used for importing Dictionaries. Knowledge Studio requires that each value is enclosed in double-quotes. This ...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration