一作SIGIR 2026Oral· Information Retrieval (Reproducibility)
Beyond Chunk-Then-Embed: A Comprehensive Taxonomy and Evaluation of Document Chunking Strategies for Information Retrieval
Yongjie Zhou · Shuai Wang · Bevan Koopman · Shengyao Zhuang
摘要
Document chunking is a critical preprocessing step in dense retrieval systems, yet the design space of chunking strategies remains poorly understood. Recent research has proposed several concurrent approaches, including LLM-guided methods (e.g., DenseX and LumberChunker) and contextualized strate...