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Watson Discovery

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Add 'enriched:true/false' to the Fields API

Currently in tooling, Sample Queries, Insight Cards, and the soon-to-be Schema Explorer can only expose enrichments if there is a field called `enriched_text`. We need to be smarter than this so tooling can pull out any field that was enriched, no...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Allows relevancy training web tooling users to specify the relevancy value of the document

While I know the API supports a range of relevancy, the WDS web tooling for relevancy training only exposes "Relevant" or "Not Relevant" as options. Can the web tooling be changed to allow the tool's user to specify a relevancy number for each doc...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Annotation of semantic meaning of text within tables utilizing headers for context

Annotation of semantic meaning of text within tables utilizing headers for context
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

API manager Rest API to Capture API metrics at Space level

Regarding obtaining data at catalog we have rest API to get the metrics.I checked the result of the REST API and realised that it does not contain in which space the product / API belongs to, our ultimate goal is to get the analytics data for the ...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Ingest Data directly through POST

The official Discovery API currently only supports document submission via multipart/form-dataPOST operations. I would like to post data directly in the ingestion request: curl -u "{username}":"{password}" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" ...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Speech to Text Integration

I have a use-case around call centers, it would be great if Watson Speech to Text was integrated as part of the Discovery pipeline
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Enable multiple language collections

We have many customers in Europe who have content in multiple languages. In WEX AC and oneWEX this was not a problem as the first step in the WEX analysis pipeline is to determine the main langaueg for a document and then apply the relevant out of...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Defect in parsing of webhose news site scraping

webhose provides articles scraped from news sites and the parsing of these sites is used for Watson NLU enrichments Some urls contain additional articles that are extraneous to the main article. The parser includes this extraneous text as part of ...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Database crawler does not support multiple occurences of large object datatype columns or fields

Currently only one occurrence of the following fields can be crawled using the Watson Discovery Database crawler. We need to be able to crawl multiple occurrences - ​java.sql.Types.BINARY java.sql.Types.BLOB java.sql.Types.CLOB java.sql.Types.LONG...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Watson Discovery Collection as Data Source Assets

Watson Discovery stuff should be added to be as supported in WKC. ie Collections as Data Assets , and ML models/pears etc.. as Language Models etc..
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release