Chunking strategies that survive production
Structural, recursive, and semantic splitting compared — plus the sizes to start from and the five ways chunking quietly caps your retrieval quality.
Intermediate8 min
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Splitting documents so retrieved passages are both findable and self-contained.
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Structural, recursive, and semantic splitting compared — plus the sizes to start from and the five ways chunking quietly caps your retrieval quality.
Prepending model-generated context to each chunk before embedding, and the measured drop in failed retrievals it produced.
Pinecone walks through fixed, recursive, and document-aware splitting with concrete size and overlap recommendations.