Watson检索和排名：Python Bluemix运行时

Question

I am trying to run through the following tutorial on Bluemix: https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/doc/retrieve-rank/get_start.shtml

However, I am not able to install Python locally onto my system due to security policies. Is there a way I can run this tutorial through hosting my code in IBM DevOps Services using the Python runtime on Bluemix?

I am not sure if the Bluemix Python runtime can be leveraged like a natively installed Python and accept the command line instructions from:

Stage 4: Create and train the ranker.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

An alternative to the manual Python and curl commands in that tutorial is to use the web interface.

I've written about it in some detail on my blog which also includes a video walkthrough of how the web tool works. (You can also find the official documentation on ibm.com).

But to sum up, it'd mean you could do everything through a web browser and not have to install or run anything locally - including training a ranker.

There is a small wrinkle in this plan right now, unfortunately. The Solr schema used in the Python/curl tutorial you've followed isn't compatible with the web tool, but we're working on that . This means that if you use the web tool, you'll need to start again with a new cluster and collection. But this means that you could start again using your own documents, content and training questions, instead of having to use the cranfield test data - so hopefully this is a good thing!