Knowledge Discovery UI

A sleek and intuitive Angular-based interface for interacting with OpenText Knowledge Discovery (IDOL), built for enterprise-level unstructured data search and analysis. This application showcases advanced Q&A capabilities, topic mining, secure document access, and contextual insights drawn from official reports and internal documents.

🚀 Features

🔍 Natural Language Q&A

• Ask questions in plain English and get precise answers extracted from large collections of enterprise documents.
• Example: "Tell me about waste and fraud in the Singapore government" returns a clear summary backed by official audit sources.

🧠 Topic Detection and Analytics

• Identifies and ranks frequent topics across a document set.
• Displays how many documents and occurrences are linked to each topic (e.g., “Audit of Government Ministries”, “Use of Public Resources”).

🧾 Source Traceability

• All answers link directly to their source documents, ensuring transparency and auditability.

• Supports deep diving into PDFs and government reports with contextually extracted highlights.

🔐 Mapped Security Integration

• Implements IDOL's mapped ACL security, allowing users to access only the documents permitted by their roles.
• Supports connectors like SharePoint, Exchange, and File System for real-time ACL recognition.

📊 Intelligent Disambiguation

• Distinguishes similar-sounding entities or team names using contextual awareness.
• Example: Accurately determines that "Robotics team" attended a conference instead of the "Analytics team."

🤖 People Also Asked

• Auto-surfaces related questions to extend exploration and simulate a guided Q&A experience.
• Makes enterprise document interrogation feel like a modern search engine.

💾 Saved Searches and Conversations

💡 Saved Searches

Users can save specific queries and results for future reference.

Each saved search includes the question, and results, making it easy to return to a prior insight. Once a search is saved the user can have a conversation with only documents in the saved search.

Example: A user exploring "budget misuse in 2022" can save the result and revisit it with a single click.

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Frontend: Angular
• Backend: OpenText IDOL / Answer Server
• Search Engine: Knowledge Discovery
• Authentication: ACL-based Mapped Security
• Document Sources: SharePoint, Exchange, File System
• Integration: RESTful APIs

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📦 Deployment

Instructions to be added soon

Currently deployed in a private demo environment.

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📄 License

MIT License

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👤 Maintainer

Vinay Joseph
📧 vinay@vinayjoseph.com

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