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IBM Watson Discovery
Accelerate business decisions and processes with an intelligent document understanding
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With IBM Watson® Discovery, you can boost the productivity of knowledge workers by automating the discovery of information and insights with advanced Natural Language Processing and Understanding. That means faster business results, satisfied customers and happier employees.

Accelerate decisions and processes

An insurance client reduced the time spent reading and analyzing text data by 90%.

Generate revenue

A law firm gained 4X better productivity and earned 30% more revenue.

Reduce costs

An oil and gas company reached over USD 10 million in savings.

Provides user friendly tooling

Intuitive tooling empowers your subject-matter experts to teach IBM Watson® the language of your industry.

Features

Understands your document structure

Smart Document Understanding (SDU) is a visual machine learning tool that enables users to label text so that the tool builds an understanding of critical components inside your enterprise documents, such as headers, tables and more. Once you annotate a few pages of your documents, SDU can teach itself the rest, retrieving answers and information only from relevant content.

How to use SDU Create a project
Convert images of text into insights

IBM’s new OCR provides higher character accuracy and detection recall giving you greater extraction of key insights from documents in sub-optimal conditions such as irregular fonts, insufficient resolution, bad lighting from mobile capture and even variety of colors and backgrounds. 

Explore IBM's new OCR technology
Navigate through your data to discover insights

Traditional enterprise search engines perform keyword searches and provide end-users with links to documentation. But with Watson Discovery, you move beyond keyword search to navigate confidently through your documents using faceted search to find the relevant information needed. The design of this platform ensures that the information you need is easily accessible and can push to downstream automation via JSON output. 

More about faceted navigation
Offers NLP enrichments

The platform’s out-of-the-box NLP enrichments include entity extraction, sentiment analysis, emotion analysis, keyword extractions, category classification, concept tagging and more. 

How to enrich your data
Leverages large language models (LLMs)

IBM Watson Discovery uses foundation models from Watson Natural Language Processing (NLP) for advanced processing and understanding of text, enabling the accurate extraction of information and insights from business documents, accelerating processes and generating insights. 

Learn more about IBM usage of LLMs Explore foundation models in watsonx.ai
Extract domain-specific entities

Define custom entity types and annotate entity mentions to iteratively train a supervised entity recognition model with active learning techniques to accelerate training. 

    How to create custom entity extractions
    Understands your document structure

    Smart Document Understanding (SDU) is a visual machine learning tool that enables users to label text so that the tool builds an understanding of critical components inside your enterprise documents, such as headers, tables and more. Once you annotate a few pages of your documents, SDU can teach itself the rest, retrieving answers and information only from relevant content.

    How to use SDU Create a project
    Convert images of text into insights

    IBM’s new OCR provides higher character accuracy and detection recall giving you greater extraction of key insights from documents in sub-optimal conditions such as irregular fonts, insufficient resolution, bad lighting from mobile capture and even variety of colors and backgrounds. 

    Explore IBM's new OCR technology
    Navigate through your data to discover insights

    Traditional enterprise search engines perform keyword searches and provide end-users with links to documentation. But with Watson Discovery, you move beyond keyword search to navigate confidently through your documents using faceted search to find the relevant information needed. The design of this platform ensures that the information you need is easily accessible and can push to downstream automation via JSON output. 

    More about faceted navigation
    Offers NLP enrichments

    The platform’s out-of-the-box NLP enrichments include entity extraction, sentiment analysis, emotion analysis, keyword extractions, category classification, concept tagging and more. 

    How to enrich your data
    Leverages large language models (LLMs)

    IBM Watson Discovery uses foundation models from Watson Natural Language Processing (NLP) for advanced processing and understanding of text, enabling the accurate extraction of information and insights from business documents, accelerating processes and generating insights. 

    Learn more about IBM usage of LLMs Explore foundation models in watsonx.ai
    Extract domain-specific entities

    Define custom entity types and annotate entity mentions to iteratively train a supervised entity recognition model with active learning techniques to accelerate training. 

      How to create custom entity extractions

      Resources

      IBM Watson Discovery solution brief

      Learn how you can accelerate decisions and business processes with Watson Discovery.

      IBM Watson Apps Community

      For builders of virtual assistants, enterprise search and text analytics solutions.

      Get started with the IBM Cloud

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