Beyond Structure: Semantic Chunking Inside ODC

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Learn how to apply semantic chunking inside ODC to go beyond structure and improve meaning extraction from text

intermediate Published 19 Jun 2026

Action Steps

Explore the OutSystems Forge to find the Semantic Chunk Workbench test app
Apply semantic chunking to your text data using the workbench
Analyze the results to identify meaningful patterns and relationships
Use the insights gained to improve your text processing and meaning extraction tasks
Integrate semantic chunking into your existing NLP pipeline to enhance its capabilities

Who Needs to Know This

Developers and data scientists working with text data can benefit from understanding semantic chunking to improve their natural language processing tasks

Key Insight

💡 Semantic chunking can help go beyond structure and extract more meaningful information from text data

Key Takeaways

Learn how to apply semantic chunking inside ODC to go beyond structure and improve meaning extraction from text

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The Semantic Chunk Workbench test app, available on the OutSystems Forge.

Structure got us far. Meaning takes us further.

The first two [articles](https://medium.com/itnext/what-odc-actually-does-when-it-chunks-your-text-8bf6b7b06a18) in this series were about structure. I built a [test app](https://www.outsystems.com/forge/

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