chunking
Splitting a page into passages before indexing.
What chunking means
A page can be retrieved as one passage that reads badly out of context, which is why a self-contained paragraph is easier to quote than one that depends on the paragraph above it.
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How a generated answer gets made, and what your page is competing for inside it.
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Questions about chunking
What is chunking?
Splitting a page into passages before indexing.
Which area of the glossary does chunking belong to?
Answer engines and retrieval: How a generated answer gets made, and what your page is competing for inside it.
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