Watson Discovery News

IBM Watson™ Discovery News is included with Discovery. Watson Discovery News is an indexed dataset that is pre-enriched with the following cognitive insights: Keyword Extraction, Entity Extraction, Semantic Role Extraction, Sentiment Analysis, Relation Extraction, and Category Classification. (To learn more about enrichments, see Adding enrichments.) The following additional metadata is also added: crawl date and publication date. Historical search is available for the past 60 days of news data.

The Watson Discovery News feature is deprecated as of 8 October 2021. Existing News collections are available and support continues until 8 October 2022, after which date they will no longer be accessible.

Watson Discovery News is updated continuously with new articles, and is available in English, Spanish, German, Korean, French, and Japanese. Discovery News English is updated with approximately 200,000 new articles daily; Discovery News Spanish is updated with approximately 60,000 new articles daily; Discovery News German is updated with approximately 15,000 new articles daily; Discovery News Korean with 10,000 new articles daily; Discovery News French with 23,000 new articles daily; Discovery News Japanese is updated with approximately 17,000 new articles daily. The news sources vary by language, so the query results for each collection are not identical.

Use cases for Watson Discovery News:

• News alerting - Create news alerts by taking advantage of the support for entities, keywords, categories, and sentiment analysis to watch for both news and how it is perceived.

• Event detection - The subject/action/object semantic role extraction checks for terms/actions such as "acquisition", "election results", or "IPO".

• Trending topics in the news - Identify popular topics and monitor increases and decreases in how frequently they (or related topics) are mentioned.

For information about writing queries for IBM Watson™ Discovery News, see:

• Querying Watson Discovery News
• Query concepts
• Query reference

You cannot adjust the IBM Watson™ Discovery News configuration, train, or add documents to the IBM Watson™ Discovery News collection.

IBM Watson™ Discovery News queries display approximately 50 words from each article in the text JSON field. These words are extracted from the highlights. See highlight for an explanation of highlights. Highlights do not need to be explicitly included in your query to enable this behavior.

The maximum number of results returned for a IBM Watson™ Discovery News query is 50. Use additional queries and the offset parameter to return more than 50 results.

This version of IBM Watson™ Discovery News debuted on 31 July 2017. IBM Watson™ Discovery News Original was retired from service 15 January 2018.