The Two Minds of a Chatbot: Quick Response and Deep Reasoning for Academic Guidance

Root Thesis/README.md

Thesis Project

This repository contains the source code, data, and experiments for the thesis.

📂 Project Layout

Thesis/
    data/                # Input PDFs and reference documents
    stage1/              # Stage 1 (Baseline) system with Ollama
    stage2_rag/          # Stage 2 (RAG) system
    stage3_ragkg/       # Stage 3 (RAG + KG + ILP) system
    .env                 # Environment configuration (per-project)

Note: virtual environments are created per-stage (inside each stageX/ directory) — there is no longer a single shared .venv/ at the repository root. See each stage's README for exact commands.

🚀 Getting Started

Each stage is self-contained and has its own requirements.txt and local .venv directory. This avoids dependency conflicts between stages and allows you to run stages independently.

See the stage READMEs for detailed setup and run instructions:

• stage1/README.md
• stage2_rag/README.md
• stage3_rag_kg/README.md

If you previously had a root .venv and want to remove it (recommended to avoid confusion), you can delete it before creating stage-specific venvs. On Windows PowerShell:

# Stop Python processes if they are running (optional, but useful on Windows to avoid file locks):
Get-Process python -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Stop-Process -Force

# Delete the root virtualenv (be careful — this permanently removes the env):
Remove-Item -Recurse -Force .\.venv

After that, follow the README inside the stage you want to run to create and activate that stage's .venv.