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Unstructured Data and LLMs with Crag Wolfe and Matt Robinson

Software Engineering Daily

CHAPTER

Enhancing Information Retrieval with Structured Data Processing

The chapter discusses challenges faced by businesses in extracting information from unstructured textual data for language models, emphasizing the importance of structuring data through steps like cleaning and summarizing. It explores various chunking strategies to improve language model results, highlighting the impact of long context windows on document ranking and retrieval efficiency. Furthermore, it addresses the evolution of technology solutions for handling diverse document types and the importance of automated tools in streamlining data processing pipelines.

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