MinKSR: A Novel MT Evaluation Metric for Coordinating Human Translators with the CAT-oriented Input Method -- Pivot-based Semantic Splicing for Neural Machine Translation -- Re-Ranking for Bilingual Lexicon Extraction with Bi-directional Linear Transformation from Comparable Corpora -- Learning Bilingual Sentence Representations for Quality Estimation of Machine Translation -- Research on Domain Adaptation for SMT Based on Specific Doman Knowledge -- Automatic Construction of Domain Terminology Knowledge Base for HowNet Based on the Headword.-Building the Vietnamese Phrase Treebank by Improved Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars -- Classifying Commas for Patent Machine Translation -- BLEUS-syn: Cilin-based Smoothed BLEU.-Research on the Calculation Method of Semantic Similarity Based on Concept Hierarchy.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th China Workshop on Machine Translation, CWMT 2016, held in Urumqi, China, in August 2016. The 10 English papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 76 submissions. They deal with statistical machine translation, hybrid machine translation, machine translation evaluation, post editing, alignment, and inducing bilingual knowledge from corpora. .