This is the conference reader for the 2nd Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies (CCLS2023) in Würzburg, 22-23 June 2023. It contains peer-reviewed, complete and fully layouted versions of the presented papers that, however, are not the final versions yet. The final versions of record are due to be published in issue 1, 2023 of the Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS). The editors of this conference reader are listed above. Citation suggestion: [Authors]. 2023. "[Paper title]", in: Conference Reader: 2nd Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies (CCLS2023), edited by Christof Schöch, Élodie Ripoll, Evelyn Gius and Peer Trilcke. JCLS / Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8093598. The titles and authors of the papers are listed below: Gender Depiction in Portuguese – Cláudia Freitas*, Diana Santos A Novel Approach for Identification and Linking of Short Quotations in Scholarly Texts and Literary Works – Frederik Arnold*, Robert Jäschke Automatic Topic-Guided Segmentation of Holocaust Survivor Testimonies – Eitan Wagner, Renana Keydar*, Amit Pinchevski, Omri Abend InvBERT: Reconstructing Text from Contextualized Word Embeddings by inverting the BERT pipeline – Kai Kugler*, Simon Münker, Johannes Höhmann, Achim Rettinger What do characters do? – Andrew Piper Need a Good Book about Privacy? Evaluating Dictionary-Based Corpus Query for Detecting the Topic of Privacy in Literary Texts – Erik Ketzan*, Jennifer Edmond, Carl Vogel The Authorship of Stephen King’s Books Written Under the Pseudonym “Richard Bachman”: A Stylometric Analysis – Vincent Neyt, Mike Kestemont, Dorothy Henriette Modrall Sperling* Extracting Geographical References from Finnish Literature. Fully Automated Processing of Plain-Text Corpora – Harri Kiiskinen*, Asko Nivala, Jasmine Westerlund, Juhana Saarelainen Stylistic History of the Hungarian Novel Based on Sentence Structures – Botond Szemes Why the Daisy sisters are different. a stylometric study on the oeuvre of Swedish author Henning Mankell and the Dutch translations of his work – Martje Wijers Translation-based connotation visualization for classical poetic Japanese vocabulary of the Kokin Wakashū ca. 905 – Xudong Chen*, Hilofumi Yamamoto, Bor Hodošček What's that Scary Sound? – Svenja Guhr*, Mark Algee-Hewitt Connecting the Dots – Leonard Konle*, Merten Kröncke, Simone Winko, Fotis Jannidis Computational approaches to opera libretti – Luca Giovannini*, Daniil Skorinkin