Retrieval Engineering
Chunking & indexing
Lesson 2 of 5
How you split documents into chunks largely determines retrieval quality before a single embedding is computed.
What you'll learn
- Understand why documents are split before embedding
- Reason about chunk size and overlap trade-offs
- Know what text actually gets embedded versus stored
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