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Watson Discovery

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Enhance Watson Discovery to support kerberos authentication

Based on the current design, Watson Discovery does not support Kerberos authentication. Could we explore options to implement this?
11 days ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Make the annotation tool in Watson Discovery colorblind safe

During a recent Client Enablement Workshop, we presented an overview of Watson Discovery and followed it with a hands-on session. This allowed participants to explore the product through guided exercises. However, we encountered an important acces...
about 1 month ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Smart Document Understanding - Option to choose the documents that I want to annotate

The SDU only presents 40 documents to annotate in the drop-down list and often, there are documents that we need to annotate and do not appear in the list due to this limitation. The suggestion is that instead of having a list of 40 documents to a...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

API to automate webcrawl in Watson Discovery

Please make an API available in Discovery v2 where you specify a web crawl configuration with URLs programmatically. Defining the maximum links is good but how can i be sure if crawls all the sites that i want it to.
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Proposal to Add Vector Search Support to Watson Discovery

Does IBM have any plans to support vector search in Watson Discovery?While we understand that watsonx Discovery and IBM Cloud’s Elasticsearch already offer vector search capabilities, Watson Discovery stands out for its excellent text search accur...
4 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Universal Watson Discovery

Universal Watson Discovery could be a powerful AI-driven knowledge and financial intelligence system, integrating IBM Watson Discovery's NLP, AI search, and document analysis with your broader Open Wealth Autonomous Nexus (OWAN), Nano Inheritance ...
2 months ago in Watson Discovery 2 Submitted

Request for Improved Orthographic Variation Handling in Japanese through Morphological Analysis in Watson Discovery

When using Watson Discovery for Japanese natural language searches, we are experiencing issues due to variations in okurigana (Japanese verb endings) and spelling differences, which prevent certain search results from appearing as expected. For ex...
5 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Display facets on the initial screen

Currently, no facets are displayed on the initial screen.Facets are displayed when you perform a search.Could you please display the facets on the initial screen?
10 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

select a facet and immediately change the display to the facet that is relevant to the selected information

For example, let's say a facet is the "sports.types_of_sports" field, and it offers the following options: [ ] basketball [ ] baseball [ ] football And the neighboring facet is the "sports.equipment" field, which offers the following options...
10 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Ability to Specify Target Fields for Natural Language Query (NLQ) in Watson Discovery

Currently, when using NLQ (Natural Language Query), all fields in a document are included as the search target. However, there are cases where certain fields should not be subject to natural language queries (e.g., fields like URIs that indicate t...
4 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted