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Semantic chunking

What does “Semantic chunking” mean?

Semantic chunking: Dividing content at changes in meaning or topic to keep related material together.

Semantic chunking visual guide: Dividing content at changes in meaning or topic to keep related material together.
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What is an example of “Semantic chunking”?

A retrieval pipeline keeps each question and answer in the same chunk.

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See also

Retrieval-augmented generationTermChunkingTermHybrid searchTermMetadata filteringTermDocument chunk overlapTerm

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