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Search results: Watson Discovery

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WD - Support custom tokenization dictionaries

In a project of moving from WKS to WD Entity Extractor, our customer needs the support for Dictionary-based tokenization. In current use case, there are some recurring scenarios that contains dotted words, like "sentenza n. 151", D.P.R. 45/2002" A...
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

A function that brings up words that are similar in usage from a certain word

< Assumed procedure> (1) Prepare the original word (seed) (including nouns, verbs, adjectives, and sentence expressions if possible)(2) Estimate and output words that are used in the same way as Seed from the input sentences.(3) Check the wo...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Stemming instead of lemmatization for exact match search in Spanish

Customer needs exact match search, same as WeX Content Analytics. R&D teams has given a manual workaround that has to be carried out for all projects. It solved some issues such as Spanish accents and missing characters, but there are still ...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Ability to search by Icelandic inflections / word forms

We have been looking for ways to support searching in Discovery by the different Icelandic word forms / inflections. We tried uploading the different forms into the Discovery synonyms support, but encountered a limitation of max 5000 expansions or...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration
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Ability to export/import or migrate the data from a collection to another.

Merged
We have a Discovery corpus with over 50K documents several of which have large documents (PDF's, Word Docs etc). It take over 9 hours to recreate the full Discovery collection from scratch. It would really help if there was a way to export a col...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release

Slide decks need to retain slide structure in text content

In document conversion stage it appears that page breaks are not retained in text extracted from Powerpoint slide decks. Unlike word documents which are ususally a continuous flow of text structured by headings, slide decks are strucutred by each ...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Stopword customization

I would like to be able to customize the stopword list in Discovery. I have some words, such as "of" which is included as part of other words in my synonym list. However, the word "of" is on the stopword list. Apparently the stopword list takes pr...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Delivered

Extract all properties from Word documents

WDS extract only few properties from a Word document, but some users more properties : example with Manager or Company or Category who are not extracted and indexed.All custom properties used as tags by users are also not extracted and not indexed...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Smart Document Understanding returns document structure

Right now, the output of SDU is aggregated into a JSON array. It would be great if SDU could return the parsed structure of the document. This way we can know for sure if this word in the document is a 'Table of Content' type, or 'Subtitle' type.
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

Stop words should not impact phrases in Discovery Query Language

WDS enables you to define your own set of stop words. We recently noticed that the stop words are removed from searches even when using phrases with the Discovery Language syntax. For example if we search for the phrase "we the people" and we and ...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration