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Document chunk overlap

What does “Document chunk overlap” mean?

Document chunk overlap: Repeating part of a document at the boundary between adjacent chunks.

Document chunk overlap visual guide: Repeating part of a document at the boundary between adjacent chunks.
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What is an example of “Document chunk overlap”?

Two search chunks share a sentence so the boundary does not split its meaning.

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Retrieval-augmented generationTermChunkingTermHybrid searchTermMulti-query retrievalTermMetadata filteringTerm

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