SymGenAI4Sci is the First International Workshop on Symbolic and Generative AI for Science co-located with Semantics-2025. The primary aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and domain experts from diverse fields to explore the opportunities and challenges of applying Generative AI in scientific discovery, fostering discussions to advance state-of-the-art methods for hypothesis generation, data interpretation, and knowledge synthesis across disciplines. The organizing team is thankful to everyone involved in making the SymGenAI4Sci workshop 2025 a success. First, our thanks go to all the organizers of the main events and Program Committee members for ensuring a rigorous review process that led to an excellent scientific program and an average of three reviews per article. SymGenAI4Sci team is also thankful to keynote speaker Robert Tjarko Lange for their valuable contributions. SymGenAI4Sci 2025 workshop has received 6 papers and accepted 5 papers after a rigorous reviewing process, 4 regular papers and 1 short papers. Each paper was reviewed by three reviewers with diferent backgrounds. The following papers were accepted for final publication and presented at the workshop: • DeepResearchEco: A Recursive Agentic Workflow for Complex Scientific Question Answering in Ecology • Investigating Symbolic Triggers of Hallucination in Gemma Models Across HaluEval and TruthfulQA • Ontology Enrichment of Video Games with LLMs • Chebifier 2: An Ensemble for Chemistry • Abstract Argumentation Frameworks Extraction for Dispute Resolution in Scientific Peer Review Organizing Committee
Keynote Robert Tjarko Lange, Sakana.AI Talk Title "Toward Open-Ended Agentic Discovery: LLMs as Artists, Scientists, and Evolutionary Engines" • Disha Purohit, TIB-Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany • Francesco Osborne, KMi, The Open University, UK & University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy • Hamed Babaei Giglou, TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Germany • Jennifer D’Souza, TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology University Library,
Hannover, Germany • Manas Gaur, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA • Sanju Tiwari, Sharda University, Delhi-NCR, India & TIB Hannover, Germany • Tanay Aggarwal, KMi, The Open University, UK
Acknowledgements The editors wholeheartedly thank the supporting keynote speakers, advisory team, authors, program committee, and all organizers for their constant support in making this event a success. Special thanks to Prof. Sören Auer for his invaluable support in initiating this workshop.