IBM Watson Discovery

IBM Watson Discovery is an AI-powered platform that enhances business decision-making by automating the discovery of information and insights from vast amounts of business documents.

Key features:
- Smart Document Understanding (SDU): Enables users to label text to help the tool understand critical components within documents. Utilizes OCR technology for high character accuracy and detection recall.
- Advanced Search and Navigation: Offers faceted search to navigate through documents easily and includes out-of-the-box NLP enrichments like entity extraction, sentiment analysis, and keyword extraction.
- User-Friendly Tooling: Provides an intuitive interface that empowers subject-matter experts to teach IBM Watson the language of their industry without requiring programming skills. Allows users to define custom entity types and annotate entity mentions to train a supervised entity recognition model.

How it works:
Users interact with IBM Watson Discovery through a web application. They can create a project, upload documents, and use the Smart Document Understanding tool to label and annotate text. The platform then learns from these annotations to automate the extraction of relevant information from the rest of the documents. Users can also leverage the faceted search and NLP enrichments to navigate and analyze their data effectively.

Integrations:
IBM Watson Discovery supports integration with various enterprise systems and tools, including:
- IBM Cloud: Seamless integration with IBM's cloud services.
- Third-Party Applications: Can be integrated with other enterprise applications via APIs.

Use of AI:
IBM Watson Discovery leverages generative AI through its use of foundation models and Large Language Models (LLMs) from Watson Natural Language Processing. These models enable the platform to perform advanced text processing and understanding, facilitating the accurate extraction of insights from complex business documents.

AI foundation model:
IBM Watson Discovery utilizes models from Watson Natural Language Processing for advanced text processing and understanding.

How to access:
IBM Watson Discovery is available as a web application and can be accessed through IBM's cloud platform. It also offers APIs for integration with other systems and applications.