Retrieval overlap went up 13 points by promoting sentences to paragraphs

The whole trick fits in one sentence: retrieve at sentence level, then hand back the paragraph each hit came from. On a benchmark of legal contracts, that took my retrieval overlap from 37.3% to 50.4%. I used to write documentation for a living, and people still tell me I write like a spec. So this is my attempt to explain an experiment in plain... Weiterlesen