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Watson Discovery

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Ability to disable or customize stemming

Watson Discovery uses stemming to identify valid matches. Based on our experience it appears that stemming is applied in both Natural Language Queries and also Discovery Language Queries. It seems to also enforced in phrase searching. This is usef...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 13 Not under consideration

More Feedback within the Crawler Sync Settings section of website

More feedback info on the crawler process is needed within the Sync Section of the WDS tooling site. It would be great to know the under of documents / web pages that had been ingested in each run of the crawler. Currently only the complete number...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Method / Option within Sync Setting to initiate a complete reload of the documents that have already been crawled.

Currently even if you make changes to the schedule or the SDU collection, which is the normal trigger to re-read a set of documents or Web site that has already been crawled. Documents that have not been altered / edited will not be include within...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Return Lemma for the sentences while using Rule Based model

Return Lemma for the sentences while using Rule Based model, Provide API access to retrun the lemma's ,surface forms
almost 5 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.
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Make sentence limitation optional

Right now, period + whitespace terminate a sentence and makes it impossible to set relations. A ml-models performance is lowered significantly by the inconsistency of documents that one is using it one, for instance e-mails. Including workaround...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Support creation of custom table labels in SDU that return content in a cell tagged with a unique row/column value

We have many use cases where customers want to be able to analyze tabular data. For example, there are many cases where a customer wants to analyze financial reports to understand how a certain company has been performing. Much of this data is pre...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

NLQ should not search numeric fields that specify e.g. offset of entity within text

The json document https://ibm.box.com/s/32mis3zwbzk3t913wdrbmcl30i3at129 ingested into WDS ends up with this out of the box NLU detected "Jobtitle" entity, with location offset ending at 2016: { "count": 2, "text": "program manager", "mentions":...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Retain new line formatting with SDU

For customers who used non-SDU collections, some of them were using "html" field to retain formatting of text. Now with SDU, this feature is no longer there. We understand that retaining formatting is not possible in SDU. However, newlines are als...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

WDS highlights should honour Advanced Search quotes

During Project Daisey development, we've come across the inconsistency between highlights returned by WDS and the query. Even if the WDS Query language query contains a compound term (which project daisey uses very frequently for financial terms...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration