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Watson Discovery

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Add standardization functionally to Task record(s) compare screen in Inspector

When viewing a tasks in Inspector, the compare screen of the attributes is not applying the standardization rules and therefor will indicate attributes are different when in fact to the algorithm, the are considered the same. We would like for ins...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Delete Documents from collection by condition

It would be handy to be able to delete documents from a collection by defining conditions. Something I would do in a sql-database like this: DELETE FROM collection_name WHERE publication_date < date('2018-01-01')
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

More options to the bias format in query parameters

Our project would quite certainly benefit from using the bias parameter in querys: rather that using a hard filter based on some metadata value, we would like to weigh some metadata values more in certain cases. However, our metadata values are mo...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Support annotation tasks for structured data in WKS to define column-to-column or column-to-Primary Key relationshios (semantic, dependency, etc. )

Watson Knowledge Studio supports annotation tasks in support of type system development for unstructured data; however, it does not currently support structured data annotation tasks. The ability to define relationships between columns would offer...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Allow custom IDs for documents when adding them to the discovery index

Whenever we face discovery setups with multiple stages or environments, its very hard and time consuming to manage multiple copies of the same document as discovery generates a new, different ID for each document in each collection. It would make ...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

Offering requirement to downgrade customer plans without losing data

Hi! Our offering (Equipment Maintenancne Assistant) embeds Watson Discovery. The EMA DevOps team indirectly provisions WDS instances. Currently, once the plan is upgraded from WDS lite to advanced, there is no way to downgrade customer plans witho...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Align pricing with metric tiers on the Catalog page.

Currently, on the Discovery Catalog page the metrics are separated from the price. For example, when I expand Up to 1M docs $500/ instance/month is displayed. I have to scroll down to see $1,500/instance/month. They only way I know up to 1M is $1,...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Support for Indian Languages

In India, the official/legal documents are documented in Indian languages. It will be good to support Indian languages like Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil. Also considering demand for chat bots in Indian languages is getting more attention, it will...
over 5 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 ...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Allow users to open a support ticket from tooling

One complaint I've heard from users is the ability to get help with Discovery. If users could open a ticket from tooling or even be directed to exactly where in IBM Console they go to open a ticket based on their account plan it could make for a s...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration