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Natural Language Understanding (NLU)

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Verbose output of all WKS model features

Please enable the access to all the features that will be annotated by a WKS model - similar to the "verbose" functionality in the deprecated Alchemy API. We need to have access to the confidence score of annotated Entities, to annotated roles and...
over 6 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Not under consideration

Add default entities like location and amount

The Watson conversation service has the ability to identify both numeric digits and numeric text. I would like the NLU service to have these default entities supported so that I can train models in Knowledge studio with both text and digits. Curre...
about 7 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 2 Planned for future release

Provide location information for Semantic roles returned

Need the offsets (location info) of the sentence returned from semantic roles in the returned data. All we get today is the full sentence.
over 6 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Not under consideration

Additional language support

We really need the ability to use NLU (classification, sentiment, keyword extraction or entities) in additional languages including Vietnamese and Thai, Traditional Chinese (HK Cantonese)
over 2 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Future consideration

Deploy SDU as a Service through a NLU enrichment

SDU brings many use case possibilities, however being inside WDS, is limited to use cases where documents are stored. With the ability to deploy the SDU model to NLU, the outputs can be used in a more flexible way.
over 5 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Not under consideration

It is possible to get the native languaje, translate into spanish and then analyze ? If it is not possible we need spanish language support. Thxs!

We are evaluating customer interaction through watson assistant for bill payments.
about 6 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Not under consideration

Deploy models programmatically

I'd like to automate the process of building, training, and deploying NLU models. This is a larger feature track of work.
about 7 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 1 Not under consideration

NLU PT-BR model

The NLU Service has wrong (and very) misinterpreted feelings for some very trivial phrases, following some recent examples of phrases that it returns "0". • Pelo bom atendimento da Loja e pela qualidade dos carros. • Carros muito confiáveis, si...
almost 4 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Not under consideration

Source IP address filtering feature for "public" Watson services

Our company requires every external applications service to add an additional authentication method other than the apikey authentication. For example: token based 2 factor authentication, client certificate authentication or source IP address filt...
over 4 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Not under consideration

anti-synonyms for entities in Watson

We have synonyms in watson, and fuzzy matching - which works great! But there are cases were Watson selects completely wrong entities. I have no way of fixing this. My example case:- user text contains the string 'Whats' - watson identifies a 7...
over 4 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 1 Functionality already exists