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Search results: Watson Discovery

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Allow to query a collection through a POST call

Currently, querying a collection can only be done through a GET call (https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/discovery/api/v1/#query-collection). This is an issue when the query parameters (actual natural language query, filters, passages setti...
almost 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Delivered

Allow custom IDs for documents when adding them to the discovery index

Whenever we face discovery setups with multiple stages or environments, its very hard and time consuming to manage multiple copies of the same document as discovery generates a new, different ID for each document in each collection. It would make ...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

Return Metadata with Get Document Details

The current (v2) Discovery API (version date: 2023-03-31) does not return any document metadata when providing Document Details. We use metadata for classification and when returning results to WatsonX.ai and WatsonX Assistant for conversational s...
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Handle rating scale conversions between Documents rated using API and documents rated using Static relevancy training

Handle rating scale conversions between Documents rated using API and documents rated using Static relevancy training. We are an OEM partner of IBM and have built a Chatbot integration with Watson Discovery search. The end Users of Chatbot rate in...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Approval flag based relevancy input

If we have to give the capability for the users to train the system then it will be better if the training API has an approval parameter which could be set to false to start with and then an SME could review those ratings to check if it could go i...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Add 'enriched:true/false' to the Fields API

Currently in tooling, Sample Queries, Insight Cards, and the soon-to-be Schema Explorer can only expose enrichments if there is a field called `enriched_text`. We need to be smarter than this so tooling can pull out any field that was enriched, no...
about 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Display correct document names in the SDU interface.

Nokia is using WDS for their HR Chatbot, and trying out long tail search optimisation through SDU. Anyhow, in the SDU UI's dropdown file list, the files uploaded from the CAESAR/SEA (chatbot asset) Admin Panel to Discovery always get "_" as the ex...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

Include Query parameter in results from the query and event log

When we query the /logs for a particular query ID, we can get the natural_language_query paratmer returned which contains the query string. { customer_id: '', environment_id: 'XXXX', natural_language_query: 'are there any capital metrics?', query_...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Competitive Barometer to assess the digital competitiveness of IBM's offerings compared to the top 4-6 competitors in the market using WDS.

Automate the IBM offerings comparison with our competitors generating insights on various parameters like if trial version is available, how is the purchase and provisioning process, Extract quickly the product functional features from the respect...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

More options to the bias format in query parameters

Our project would quite certainly benefit from using the bias parameter in querys: rather that using a hard filter based on some metadata value, we would like to weigh some metadata values more in certain cases. However, our metadata values are mo...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration