Systems, methods, and computer program products for adaptively splitting electronic chats are provided. An e-discovery system comprises a computer processor and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium embodying thereon a set of computer instructions executable by the computer processor. The set of computer instructions includes instructions for: sending a chat query to a remote electronic chat service; receiving an electronic chat responsive to the chat query, the electronic chat embodying a set of electronic chat messages; adaptively splitting the set of electronic chat messages into a set of conversations, each conversation in the set of conversations comprising a subset of electronic chat messages from the set of electronic chat messages; and storing each conversation from the set of conversations as a separate document.