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Watson Discovery

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An API or functionality to duplicate a discovery collection

As per the current design, Watson Discovery does not support duplication of existing collection (reference). It would be nice if we have a way to accomplish it. Please Note : User tried the option of Reuse Data from collection but that creates ano...
about 1 month ago in Watson Discovery 1 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...
almost 2 years 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.
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

IBM watsonx Discovery to accept OAuth authentication mechanism

IBM watsonx Discovery is installed on dedicated Google Cloud Platform (GCP). UPS.com search application will make an API call to IBM watsonx Discovery to retrieve search results for user queries. UPS.com search application will use bearer token au...
2 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

WD should publish crawl error in the UI - Warnings section

As of now, WD does not publish details / errors happened during incremental crawl. Customer has no option to know of any crawl issues, unless the administrator checks the logs manually. Verizon sees this requirement as critical in operationalising...
2 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

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?
3 months 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...
7 months 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...
3 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 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...
7 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?
12 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted