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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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watsonx Assistant

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Allow the confidence threshold criteria for disambiguation to be configurable

Currently WA (premium) uses a calculation of confidence within 55% of top intent for disambiguation candidates. This is too sensitive for some training sets (the range increases with higher confidence levels, triggering disambiguation more often t...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

WA2WA Communication

Allow a WA instance (A) to delegate a query to another WA instance (B). Propagate response from B to A. No impact on UI, there should be only one UI. Optionally add a Knowledge Harvesting capability to learn from instance B. Example, on repeat que...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Entity Folders

I think it would be pretty useful to to be able to organize entities into separate folders. I'd love to be able to have categories of entities organized so that having a lot of entities would be reasonable to work with.
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Korean language support for Tone Analyzer

Hi IBM Cloud, I'm using free tier to test IBM possibilities with Twitch Chat Bot. The bot is using Tone Analyzer in IBM Cloud service to analyze the tone of chat room. Bot server will use 10 latest chat messages to request Tone Analyzer. Bu...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Improve Tab - Filter for Low Confidence but not Irrelevant

I would like to be able to filter logs to find user utterances that are not irrelevant but are less than 50% (for example) confidence so that I can decide whether they were correctly understood or whether they should be added to the examples for a...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Allow for bulk testing of questions

During the construction or the improvement of a virtual assistant, we need to test its behavior thoroughly. It involves using a list of questions to check if the answers are consistent. There's no native way in WA to import a large amount of quest...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

API calls for testing and production load should be treated and priced differently

During the construction or the improvement of a virtual assistant, we need to test its behavior thoroughly. It involves using a list of questions to check if the answers are consistent. It can respresent a very large volume of API calls. This usag...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Archive or De-activate a Node in Dialog

If I'm missing current functionality, please forgive me, but I find this ability very helpful in other systems I've used. It would be nice if there was an option for each dialog node (where current functions like "move", "duplicate", "delete" are ...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Support for live editing of the dialog while working with multiple people

As a conversation developer it would be nice to have functionality that supports working with multiple developers on the same dialog from different computers, without having to have refresh the browser screen every time.
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Select future or past or range for ambiguous sys-date and sys-time

Currently the system entities for date and time make a guess to fill in portions of the date and time that are not mentioned by the user. For example: "Monday" could be in the future or in the past. "4/5" could be this year, last year or next ye...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration