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Watson Discovery

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Discovery's SDU (powerpoint note column)

Powerpoint slides have a note field below the slide. It contains important texts.I want to get the text of the note field with SDU. When I tested it, I couldn't get the text in the note field. I'd like to get the text in the note field with SDU
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future 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
about 7 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 ...
about 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 ...
almost 5 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.
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Enable the encoding to handle text files in ShiftJIS code.

There're a lot of ShiftJIs text files stored on Windows File System which we're going to crawl, but currently there's no way to change the encoding setting in WD(on CP4D), so all of them are garbled ( by default they are read as UTF-8 text). Pleas...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Allow updating metadata without updating the document in "Update Document" Discovery API request

At this time, we need upload the same document due to update only metadata. I want to update metadata of a document without updating the document because it takes a long time to process the document uploaded.
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Build Discovery support for automatic correction of mis-spellings instead of requiring Query expansion to explicitely train Discovery

We are an OEM partner of IBM and have built a Chatbot offering with Watson Discovery search integration. Feedback from one of our Customer's indicates that they are looking for built-in Watson Discovery support for correcting mis-spellings / offer...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

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

Need the custom crawler sample with Python

Currently the custom crawler sample code is Java only. My customer is requesting the Python one for their ease of use and productivity.
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration