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Watson Discovery

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JSON file of the ML annotations over the TEST set

It would be very useful to being able to download a JSON file of the annotations generated by the ML model, over the TEST set. Currently it is possible to download such JSON file with the annotations done by hand. Getting the ones of the ML over t...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Synergy between WD and CPD

I don't know the vision to sell watson discovery alone. Currently, WEXAC and FC customers are not very attractive because WD has to buy a CPD license and probably needs more resources. I wondered if I could somehow propose with synergies in other...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Creating Expansions while operation in progress returns 500 instead of 409

Follow up from #1474 which was closed without a resolution. Currently, if the user initiates a request to POST /v1/environments/${environment_id}/collections/${collection_id}/expansions while a process (such as a snapshot, etc) is running on their...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Make "name" optional for updateConfiguration and updateCollection

The Discovery updateConfiguration and updateCollection operations currently require name to be specified in the update request. If the user doesn’t want to change the name — just some other attribute — they still have to pass the "name" (and make ...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Discovery “getTokenizationDictionaryStatus” returns a non-standard error response for a 404 error

The “getTokenizationDictionaryStatus” operation (GET on /v1/environments/{environment_id}/collections/{collection_id}/word_lists/tokenization_dictionary) returns a "TokenDictStatusResponse" rather than a standard error response for 404 (not found)...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Effective Rename Entity and Relations for Annotations

At the moment, when we rename the name/label of the Entity and Relation under "ASSET" column, it doesn't change existing annotations, which are still associated with the previous labels. This is problematic when we need the label to be change...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Auto warning for unusual data trend

Auto warning or notification when system found unusual data compare to data history in certain period. It can be by color, text notification, etc. The purpose is just to notify user that there is unusual data or trend compare to certain period bac...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Extract all properties from Word documents

WDS extract only few properties from a Word document, but some users more properties : example with Manager or Company or Category who are not extracted and indexed.All custom properties used as tags by users are also not extracted and not indexed...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Display correct document names in the SDU interface.

Nokia is using WDS for their HR Chatbot, and trying out long tail search optimisation through SDU. Anyhow, in the SDU UI's dropdown file list, the files uploaded from the CAESAR/SEA (chatbot asset) Admin Panel to Discovery always get "_" as the ex...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

Option to fetch Sub Types while exporting the WKS ML model to use in Content Analytics

We have a requirement to use WKS ML model in Content Analytics. I have created subtypes in the WKS model for better understanding of the data. But I am not able to fetch those subtypes while exporting as there is only option to use mentions and re...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration