Preserve Meaning with Semantic Chunking
- Patrick Law
- Jul 16
- 1 min read
Ever feel like your AI assistant tangles prose into nonsense when it crosses arbitrary chunk boundaries? Semantic chunking offers a smarter split—using paragraphs, headings, and numbered sections—to keep thoughts intact and your RAG pipeline razor-sharp.
Key Benefits:
Coherent Context: Each chunk holds complete ideas, slashing hallucination risk.
Metadata Filtering: Tag chunks with section titles (e.g. “Methods,” “Summary”) for precision retrieval.
Adaptive Granularity: Variable chunk lengths give the model just the right amount of text where needed.
Limitations & Workflow Fit
Semantic splitting demands consistent formatting—misplaced headings or erratic paragraphs can throw your splitter off. Very long sections might exceed model windows, and tiny paragraph chunks can bloat your vector index. At Singularity, we use a lightweight rule set—split on blank lines and proper headers, cap at 500 tokens with 15% overlap—and integrate the chunker into our CI/CD pipeline so our Operations Manual and marketing playbooks always produce clean, ready-to-query embeddings.
Conclusion & CTA
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