KI2025 - Workshop

Humanities-Centred AI (CHAI)

Workshop at KI2025
48th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 16 - 19 September 2025: Potsdam, Germany
(workshops and tutorials taking place on the 16th September)
https://ki2025.gi.de/

AI can support research in the Humanities making it easier and more efficient. It is thus essential that AI practitioners and Humanities scholars take a Humanities-centred approach to the development, deployment and application of AI methods for the Humanities.

Aim & Scope

Inferring ancient cultural traditions from written artefacts, AI offers many opportunities to assist humanities scholars in their work. Editorial projects and computer-aided evaluations, such as text and data mining or linguistic analyses, require the collecting, storing, and linking of data in order to quickly identify core information of the written artefacts under investigation. Time-consuming procedures like the creation of dictionaries or the use of bibliographies can be facilitated, abridged and designed more efficiently through the automatic linking of data, which enables to create extensive data sets and to generate additional information. In this way, AI supports scholars with time-saving methods for their research, hence leaving more room for core tasks and questions. To ensure that the use of AI methods in the humanities remains not only abstract and theoretic, the applicability of algorithms in respective research needs to be specifically examined and intentionally developed with a clear focus on humanities research.

Agenda

Workshop at KI2025 - 48th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Potsdam

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

15 minutes presentation plus 5 minutes discussion

Call for Papers

This workshop addresses AI methods from the perspective of humanities scholars. We encourage submissions that report on work in progress or present a synthesis of emerging research trends. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

AI for the interdisciplinary work of humanities scholars
AI for linking data from the humanities scholars
Digitized written artefact representation and description formats
AI methods for written artefact analysis
OCR for humanities scholars
Human-aware agents supporting tasks of humanities scholars

Submission: Submitted abstracts/papers must

be 1 - 3 'standard' pages in length (abstract);
be 5 - 9 'standard' pages in length (short papers);
be 10 - 15 'standard' pages in length (regular papers);
contain your research question(s), the methodological approach and your findings;
be written in English;
contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses;
be formatted according to the CEUR-WS-Template (use the 1-column style): http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip
be submitted in PDF and the source file.

Submission should be made through the EasyChair conference management system. The submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chai2025

Workshop Organisers

Dr Sylvia Melzer, Universität Hamburg
Dr Stefan Thiemann, Universität Hamburg
Dr Hagen Peukert, Universität Hamburg
Dr Magnus Bender, Universität Hamburg

Program Committee

Thomas Asselborn, Universität Hamburg
Dr Magnus Bender, Universität Hamburg
Prof Dr habil Meike Klettke, Universität Regensburg
Dr Sylvia Melzer, Universität Hamburg
Dr Hagen Peukert, Universität Hamburg
Dr Stefan Thiemann, Universität Hamburg

Important dates

Early bird Submission: 20 June 2025*
Early bird Notification: 27 June 2025*
*Participation in the workshop requires registration for the entire KI2025 event. Deadline for the Early Bird is June 30, 2025, therefore we offer an Early Bird Submit and Early Bird Notification.
Deadline for Submission: 04 July 2025
Notification of Authors: 25 July 2025
Camera-Ready: 12 September 2025
Workshop date: 16 September 2025