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What Is a Semantic Terrain?
A Semantic Terrain is a computed reading of a corpus's structural geography. Learn how it differs from RAG, clustering, and scatterplots, and why CAINC generates it as a new category of corpus intelligence.
- •A Semantic Terrain is a computed, navigable reading of the structural geography of a document corpus, not a visualization, not a cluster list, not a retrieval result.
- •RAG finds needles; scatterplots distort distances; clustering flattens geography. A Semantic Terrain measures the whole haystack as navigable landform.
- •Terrain features (peaks, passes, corridors, contours, communities, skeletons) are first-class objects you can navigate and query.
- •Terrain-Augmented Generation (TAG) retrieves across terrain structure rather than document chunks alone.