Dear InfoVis scholars, The UQ Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language will be hosting the AVML2016 conference this coming September. The conference is a great way for scholars from diverse fields to meet and discuss the visualisation of many forms of language and communication data including medical imaging, word clouds, concept maps, language trees, spectrograms, amongst others. If your research involves visual modelling, analysis and/or exploration of any aspect of language or communication data the AVML2016 conference is a great way to showcase and discuss this work with a diverse range of experts. The deadline for submissions is May 15th, however if you are unable to submit a 500 word abstract to easychair by this date please instead email conference organiser Dr Daniel Angus d.angus@uq.edu.au<mailto:d.angus@uq.edu.au> to register an expression of interest in submission. Advances in Visual Methods for Linguistics 2016 (AVML2016) Call for papers Linguistics, like other scientific disciplines, is centrally reliant upon visual images for the elicitation, analysis and presentation of data. It is difficult to imagine how linguistics could have developed, and how it could be done today, without visual representations such as syntactic trees, psychophysical models, vocal tract diagrams, dialect maps, or spectrograms. With the emergence of new visualisation methods and technologies there is a renewed interest in the application of these techniques to the study of language. In 2012, the University of York hosted the first AVML meeting, addressing a need within the academic community for a forum dedicated to sharing work in this emergent interdisciplinary space. After the success of this first meeting, The University of Tübingen then hosted AVML2014. The UQ Node of theARCCentre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language<http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/> at the University of Queensland is hosting 'Advances in Visual Methods for Linguistics' on September 26th - 28th 2016. The AVML2016 meeting consists of two events: The workshop with hands-on workshops/sessions (September 26th) and the conference with oral and poster presentations (September 27th & 28th). Suggestions for workshops and abstracts for oral or poster presentations (maximum length 500 words; please state your preference for oral or poster format) should be submitted as PDF files to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avml2016 by May 15th 2016. Submitters are encouraged to include relevant graphics in or accompanying their abstracts. The venue for the conference is The University of Queensland St Lucia Campus. Find more information here<https://avml2012.wordpress.com/venue/>. Registration fees will be $200 (faculty/industry) or $100 (student) for the 3 days which includes catering and a digital proceedings, and $50 for the conference banquet for interested attendees. More information is available at http://avml-meeting.com/ Conference organisers Daniel Angus<http://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/2079>, Janet Wiles<http://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/13>, Lydia Byrne<http://www.visualizationwhiteboard.com/> (The University of Queensland)