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RAGMedium· Recency· Metadata· Semantic Search

Why do users asking for 'the latest release notes' get...

A common mistake is attempting to inject dates into the chunk text, which treats a hard temporal constraint as a weak topical signal. This fails when users use relative time expressions like ‘last quarter.’ The correct approach is to treat recency as a hard metadata filter, requiring the system to extract the date from the query and apply it as a structured constraint against the document’s metadata.

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