Chunking Strategies: Breaking Documents into Searchable Pieces
Summary
Master the art of breaking large documents into searchable chunks. Learn why chunking is necessary for context windows and precision, explore fixed-size, semantic, and sentence-based strategies, and understand chunk overlap techniques that prevent information loss at boundaries.
About this video
Master the art of breaking large documents into searchable chunks. Learn why chunking is necessary for context windows and precision, explore fixed-size, semantic, and sentence-based strategies, and understand chunk overlap techniques that prevent information loss at boundaries. What you'll learn: ⚡ Why chunking matters for context windows and precision ⚡ Chunking strategies: fixed-size, semantic, sentence-based, layout-based ⚡ Chunk overlap as a safety net (67% → 94% accuracy improvement) ⚡ Multimodal chunking: videos, audio, images, PDFs ⚡ Building object decomposition pipelines in Mixpeek ⚡ Real-world example: 200-page legal contract analysis