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Watson Discovery

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Watson Discovery : Box connector should be able to crawl with Service Accounts when "App Access Only" is selected

https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-connector-box-cloud&locale=en While configuring a Box connector, many customers need to select "App Access Only" for security reason. With that, currently only App Users are select...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Capability to add filters with questions while adding training via tooling

There is API capability to add filters to training data but the SMEs who are not technical will need the same capability in tooling
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Approval flag based relevancy input

If we have to give the capability for the users to train the system then it will be better if the training API has an approval parameter which could be set to false to start with and then an SME could review those ratings to check if it could go i...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 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.
over 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...
over 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...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Search option by Queries and Documents in the Relevancy Training User Interface.

There should be a search option available on the WDS Relevancy training interface. The search at a minimum needs to be one NLQ, Documents (id, document name).
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Stop training an annotator once the process has started

It's somewhat easy to accidentally train an annotator and it wastes 10-15 minutes if this happens. A "stop training" button would be helpful. Alternatively, a "Are you sure you want to train your annotator?" prompt. I've done this several times, b...
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Ability to connect OWL ontology to Discovery JSONs

Ability to connect OWL ontology to Discovery JSONs This to imply an instance of an ontology / knowledge graph where enrichments from WDS would be associated with nodes of an ontology and returned from an WDS query? Currently WDS only works with e...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Configure level for search

Hello, I need to limit the web crawler search to the first level, but there isn't any way to configure the search level
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration