Chunking: Getting the First Cut Right

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Fixed-size chunking : the "just cut every N characters" approach. Reranked Contextual Embedding and Contextual BM25 reduces the top-20-chunk retrieval failure rate by 67%. Contextual Retrieval and Late Chunking are about what the chunk remembers after the cut.

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