Also called: splitting, segmentation
Cutting documents into smaller passages before storing them for retrieval.
Why it mattersBad chunking is the number one reason a RAG system returns nonsense. Split on meaning, not character count.
Chunking
Cutting documents into smaller passages before storing them for retrieval.
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