Semantic chunking
Splitting content at inferred topic or discourse boundaries.
What Semantic chunking means
It may produce more coherent passages, but the boundaries depend on the model and configuration used.
Related terms in Retrieval engineering
How pages become chunks, vectors and candidates inside an answer engine, and why being retrieved is not being cited.
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Questions about Semantic chunking
What is Semantic chunking?
Splitting content at inferred topic or discourse boundaries.
Which area of the glossary does Semantic chunking belong to?
Retrieval engineering: How pages become chunks, vectors and candidates inside an answer engine, and why being retrieved is not being cited.
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