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Status Future consideration
Workspace Watson Discovery
Created by Guest
Created on May 31, 2021

About available languages of when defining Entity/Relation in Knowledge Studio.

I would like to request Japanese added to characters that can be used for Entities/Relations in Knowledge Studio.

(This request is strongly seek by our clients of a major cosmetics manufacturer that has expanded worldwide through our Project.)


the problem statement/pain points

When annotating in Knowledge Studio, it is required to define Entities/Relations in advance, however currently only alphanumeric characters can be used for the name. (Japanese cannot be used).

Due to this limitation, when the members who does the annotation task tries to select Entities/Relations for the document on the annotation display in Knowledge Studio, it is difficult for them to choose Entities/Relations intuitively, therefore they have to translate the name of the Entity/Relation from English to Japanese once and have to remember what each of them means before annotating.

Although the annotation process is a very demanding task, the inability to use languages other than alphanumeric characters in the names of  Entities/Relations further divides the interpretation among the members, creates unnecessary tasks (a correction of incorrect Relation/Entity settings etc).


the benefits/value

If non-alphanumeric characters (especially Japanese) can be used for Entity/Relation names, it will be possible to select Entity/ Relation in one's native language, which is expected to foster more awareness of same understanding among the members and moreover is expected to reduce the number of wrong annotations, thus reduce the annotation task load.