Perspectives on Humanities‑Centered AI and Formal & Cognitive Reasoning Workshop 2025,(CHAI 2025 & FCR 2025)

Under the joint heading Perspectives on Humanities-Centered AI (CHAI 2025) and Formal &amp; Cognitive Reasoning (FCR-2025), the two workshops CHAI and FCR were organised together for the first time. The joint event brought into dialogue two complementary perspectives on artificial intelligence (AI). On the one hand, CHAI explored how AI, as the science of agents acting in the world, can support research in the Humanities by enhancing efficiency and effectiveness. With a Humanities-centred approach, AI methods can be tailored to the specific challenges of interpreting cultural traditions, working with written artefacts, and applying techniques such as text mining and linguistic analysis in ways that optimize human–machine interaction. On the other hand, FCR addressed issues of reasoning under uncertainty and change, emphasizing the need for non-classical systems to capture both real-life Large Language Model (LLM)-based applications and the characteristics of human reasoning. Topics included incomplete knowledge, inconsistent beliefs, and diverse reasoning mechanisms such as analogical and defeasible reasoning, as well as their integration with machine learning approaches.<br> This volume contains the accepted contributions and corresponding presentations from the joint workshop. <strong>Part I - 5th Workshop on Humanities-Centred AI (CHAI 2025)</strong> Magnus Bender<br> <em>Aarhus University, Denmark</em><br> <strong>Welcome</strong> Thomas Reiser¹, Jens Dörpinghaus^1,2,3, Petra Steiner², Michael Tiemann^1,2<br> <em>¹University of Koblenz, Germany; ²Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), Germany; ³Linnaeus University, Sweden</em><br> <strong>Linking Vocational archive Data using an Occupations and Educations centric Ontology</strong><br> (download presentation) Thomas Asselborn¹, Magnus Bender², Ralf Möller¹, Sylvia Melzer¹<br> <em>¹University of Hamburg, Germany; ²Aarhus University, Denmark</em><br> <strong>Publishing a Chatbot: Opportunities and Challenges</strong><br> (download presentation) Nadiia Duiunova¹, Mariia Halchynska¹, Johannes Römisch¹, Hannes Kahl², Holger Essler³, Frank Deinzer¹<br> <em>¹Technical University of Applied Sciences Wuerzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany; ²University Trier, Germany, ³Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany </em><br> <strong>Label the Invisible: AI-Aided Label Enhancement and Ink Residue Exposure</strong><br> (download presentation) <strong>Part II - 11th Workshop on Formal and Cognitive Reasoning (FCR 2025)</strong> Jan Speller¹, Malte Luttermann², Marcel Gehrke³, Tanya Braun¹<br> <em>¹University of Münster, Germany; ²DFKI Lübeck, Germany; ³University of Hamburg</em><br> <strong>Towards Explainability of Approximate Lifted Model Construction: A Geometric Perspective</strong><br> (download presentation) Moritz Bayerkuhnlein, Julian Britz, Diedrich Wolter<br> <em>University of Lübeck, Germany</em><br> <strong>Beyond LLM-Guided Common-Sense Reasoning for Natural Language Understanding</strong><br> (download presentation) Thomas Sievers, Nele Russwinkel<br> <em>University of Lübeck, Germany</em><br> <strong>Personalized Interactions With a Social Robot Based on Recollections From a Cognitive Model</strong><br> (download presentation) Mohammad Khodaygani, Aliyu Tanko Ali, Timon Dohnke, Tobias Groth, Edgar Baake, Martin Leucker, Nele Russwinkel<br> <em>University of Lübeck, Germany</em><br> <strong>Cognitive Modeling of Agents: Integrating Emotions, Goals, Needs, and Decision-Making</strong><br> (download presentation)<br> <br> Kai Sauerwald<br> <em>FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany</em><br> <strong>Farewell</strong>