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Watson Discovery

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Include query expansions in the new WDS usage logs

The new logs API call is very useful, however, it is missing the query expansion functionality to see what query actually got executed by WDS, instead of the NLQ coming through API. This is especially needed in client applications to understand wh...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Ability to translate document language on ingestion

This will provide the capability to select the language that the user wants in the index. Since the documents can be split/ retained as is in WDS and has the full text, there should be an out of the box integration with language translator to tran...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Allow querying without expansion

Today, when expansions are defined for a collection, the expansions are always applied. However, there are some cases where one would like to submit a query without having it expanded, like a "do not expand" flag. A concrete case is the following:...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Knowledge Studio enables model version comparison

As a Knowledge Studio enterprise user I need a way to easily compare different versions of my custom model in order to avoid any errors when deploying to production. Minimizing the errors during model deployment is of high business importance for us.
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Hindi language support

Hindi is the most common of the Indian languages with more than half of the 1.3 Billion using the language. There are huge numbers of Hindi news/blog/social media messages that are critical for companies operating in India to be able to analyze.
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release

Increased document splitting limit to 15,000

This enhancement would help customers to use the document splitting feature for very large document corpus and avoid any custom solution. Currently implemented for our client with WEX, with documents being split into up to 15000 segments. Related ...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Annotate relations defined between entity mentions automatically in relations view for documents

Current: When a relation is defined between entity types , currently we have to create the relations for each occurrence of those entities. And it is a time consuming process. Recommended: It is more efficient if the aforementioned entity relatio...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Detail metadata for enriched entities from WKS model

Currently, where is a detail information for enriched relation from WKS model, such as enriched sentences, position of first and second entities of the relation. We would like a similar detail information for enriched entities from WKS model too. ...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

List view to see annotation results for each type system

In order to create a good mode, we need to annotate with consistency and need to have enough training data for each entity and relation. Currently there is no tool or view to see what kind of words and how many words were annotated for each entiti...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

List view to see all annotated documents

Right now, in order to view annotated documents, we have to click each document and close them. A UI view where you can see all the annotated documents are preferred. With such view, instead of clicking each documents, annotators can double check...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration