Instructor: Prof. Abolfazl Asudeh
TA: Mohsen Dehghankar
Course Webiste:
https://asudeh.github.io/teaching/archive/cs480fall25/index.html
This semester, project focuses on designing and implementing a complete Document Question Answering System that integrates:
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A relational database (PostgreSQL) for users, roles, documents, and logs
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A vector database pipeline for chunking documents, generating embeddings, storing vectors, and performing nearest-neighbor retrieval
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A full query-answering workflow for end users
Full project specification (PDF):
https://github.com/UIC-CS480-Fall2025/project-documents/blob/main/project-document-full-version.pdf
Below are exemplary implementations of the Document Question Answering System developed by student teams in Fall 2025:
- Popeyes — github.com/UIC-CS480-Fall2025/popeyes
- Dash — github.com/UIC-CS480-Fall2025/dash
- Data Dumpsters — github.com/UIC-CS480-Fall2025/data-dumpsters
- No SQL — github.com/UIC-CS480-Fall2025/no-sql
- The Great Neutral Team — github.com/UIC-CS480-Fall2025/the-great-neutral-team