These proceedings contain the contributed papers for the Second International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story2019) held in conjunction with the ECIR 2019 conference in Cologne, Germany, on the 14th of April 2019. Ten full papers were selected by the programme committee from a total of 19 submissions. Each submitted paper was reviewed by three members of an international programme committee. In addition to the selected papers, the workshop features two invited speakers. Iryna Gurevych's keynote is \Claim Validation by Humans and Machines: Where We Are and the Road Ahead". Miguel Martinez addresses \Automatic Media analysis: From monitoring to Insights". We would like to thank ECIR for hosting us, our keynote speakers, the programme committee, the paper authors, and the participants, who have made this workshop possible. Editors Al pio Jorge and Ricardo Campos would like to acknowledge the support of National Funds through the Portuguese funding agency, FCT - Fundac~ao para a Ci^encia e a Tecnologia within project: UID/EEA/50014/2019 Proceedings Chair Programme Committee
Editors Dhruv Gupta (Max Planck Institute for Informatics) Federico Nanni (University of Mannheim) Florian Boudin (Universite de Nantes) Gael Dias (Normandie University) Gerasimos Lampouras (The University of She eld) Henrique Lopes Cardoso (University of Porto) Jacobo Rouces (University of Gothenburg) Joa~o Magalh~aes (New University of Lisbon) Joa~o Paulo Cordeiro (Universidade da Beira Interior) Pablo Gamallo (University of Santiago de Compostela) Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de Evora) Mark Finlayson (Florida International University) Marc Spaniol (Universite de Caen Normandie) Mengdie Zhuang (The University of She eld) Miguel Martinez-Alvarez (Signal) Nicola Ferro (University of Padova) Nina Tahmasebi (University of Gothenburg) Nuno Moniz (LIAAD/INESC TEC) Udo Kruschwitz (University of Essex) Sergio Nunes (University of Porto) Yihong Zhang (Kyoto University) Vitor Mangaravite (LIAAD INESC TEC) Web and Dissemination Chair Arian Pasquali (University of Porto) Vitor Mangaravite (LIAAD INESC TEC)