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Watson Discovery

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Add ability to recognize hand written text and fillable PDFs using SDU

SDU works really well for documents with printed text, but it doesn't recognize text in hand-written/hand-filled documents or forms. It also doesn't recognize text in fillable PDFs. It would be nice to have SDU extract text from fillable PDFs and ...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Need UI for collection current status and history

Currently collection don't show what task is processing and what task is finished. For example, after uploading documents, WD just show notification message. But, if the use miss that, user can not recognize whether the process is doing or not.
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Highlights should include JSON object for Entity and relations

During Projcet Daisey development, we are experiencing very long overall query times and one of the issues is the amount of processing we have to perform on the results to be able to display evidence to the user. When a user searches in WDS fo...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Admin rights to new WKS instance

When I create a new subscription to WKS, it does not automatically assign any rights to the creator. WKS tool assigns admin rights to the first person using it and now others cannot even find who has admin rights. This makes it hard for us to admi...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Chossing to return the lemma/surface form/both when a rule is fired

As of now the actual term in the text is being returned when a rule is fired. If we are able to choose lemma/ surface form/ both to be returned then it will be really useful.
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Adding custom metadata to a rule that is always returned when a rule is fired

Adding custom metadata to a rule that is always returned when a rule is fired
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Support annotation tasks for structured data in WKS to define column-to-column or column-to-Primary Key relationshios (semantic, dependency, etc. )

Watson Knowledge Studio supports annotation tasks in support of type system development for unstructured data; however, it does not currently support structured data annotation tasks. The ability to define relationships between columns would offer...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support for Indian Languages

In India, the official/legal documents are documented in Indian languages. It will be good to support Indian languages like Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil. Also considering demand for chat bots in Indian languages is getting more attention, it will...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Allow users to open a support ticket from tooling

One complaint I've heard from users is the ability to get help with Discovery. If users could open a ticket from tooling or even be directed to exactly where in IBM Console they go to open a ticket based on their account plan it could make for a s...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Include query expansions in the new WDS usage logs

The new logs API call is very useful, however, it is missing the query expansion functionality to see what query actually got executed by WDS, instead of the NLQ coming through API. This is especially needed in client applications to understand wh...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

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