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Watson Discovery

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Email Notification to users if ingestion is halted or completed

When ingesting large document collections it would be beneficial to have notifications sent out with ingestion status or issues.
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

To prevent data corruption or issues with Elastic Search, pause ingestion or stop ingestion before storage volumes / PVCs fill up and cause a crash.

Reduce support tickets, prevent future issues, and allow users to ingest data overnight without worrying about storage filling up.
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Ability to split paragraphs inside a document

Several documents rely on a structure that leverages a single section for a bunch of unrelated paragraphs, we'd like to do document splitting based on paragraph marks at ingestion time. This could be accomplished by allowing other tags (not only H...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Ability to clone collection from one environment to another

We have some collections in Dallas and others in Tokyo to secure the redundancy. All collections must have completely the same ranking as each other. For that reason, we need to clone collections of Watson Discovery from one environment to another.
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Provide summarisation capabilities

On knowledge management use case customers are asking for a solution that whilst retrieving pointers to relevant documents can provide a summary of the docs themselves. Customer in Banking and Insurance industries are the most interested, and in g...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

WD - Support custom tokenization dictionaries

In a project of moving from WKS to WD Entity Extractor, our customer needs the support for Dictionary-based tokenization. In current use case, there are some recurring scenarios that contains dotted words, like "sentenza n. 151", D.P.R. 45/2002" A...
7 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Allow custom IDs for documents when adding them to the discovery index

Whenever we face discovery setups with multiple stages or environments, its very hard and time consuming to manage multiple copies of the same document as discovery generates a new, different ID for each document in each collection. It would make ...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

Relevancy Training Evaluation Tooling & Metrics Dashboard

It will be good to have a capability in the tooling to do a train/test evaluation on a WDS collection and have the nDCG & recall metrics visible in the dashboard
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Watson Discovery v2 connectors for private/protected websites should support redirection support other Authenication mechanisms

Customer has a private / protected website that they want to crawl using a Discovery v2 IBM connector for web crawling. The private / protected website has redirection to login page and authentication is using Azure Multi Factor authentication. To...
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Increased document splitting limit to 15,000

This enhancement would help customers to use the document splitting feature for very large document corpus and avoid any custom solution. Currently implemented for our client with WEX, with documents being split into up to 15000 segments. Related ...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration