Machine Translation Evaluation: The 22nd China Conference on Machine Translation and Multilingual Technology (CCMT 2026)
I. Evaluation Overview
Evaluation Schedule: The 22nd China Conference on Machine Translation and Multilingual Technology (CCMT 2026) will be held in Kunming, Yunnan, in November 2026.
Languages: The evaluation covers the following language pairs: English, Mongolian, Tibetan, and Uyghur to Chinese; Chinese to English.
Evaluation Tasks: The CCMT 2026 Machine Translation Evaluation includes:
- Continuation of classic translation evaluation tasks, including Chinese-English and English-Chinese news translation tasks jointly organized by CCMT and WMT; Uyghur-Chinese, Mongolian-Chinese, and Tibetan-Chinese bilingual translation tasks; automatic post-editing evaluation.
- Discontinuation of the multi-domain machine translation task;
- Addition of a Chinese-English-Burmese multilingual machine translation task.
Data: All training, development, and test datasets will be provided by the organizers. We gratefully acknowledge the various research institutions that have provided and authorized the use of the data. The data setup for this evaluation is largely consistent with CCMT 2025, and the test sets developed for CCMT 2026 will be used.
Organization:
- Organizing Institution: Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPS)
- Organizing Committee: CIPS Technical Committee on Machine Translation and Multilingual Information Processing
- Supporting Institution: Academy of Translation and Interpretation, China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration
- Evaluation Website: http://mteval.cipsc.org.cn:81/CCMT2026/index.html
For detailed information, please refer to the Evaluation Guidelines.
II. Evaluation Schedule
| Date | Stage |
|---|---|
| 2026.05.06 | Release of evaluation guidelines; evaluation registration begins. Organizers provide training and development data to registered teams (download link sent via email) |
| TBD | Registration deadline |
| TBD | Release of test sets; submission of evaluation results |
| Synchronized with CCMT 2026 | Participating teams submit evaluation technical reports (via conference submission system) |
| TBD | Organizers notify participating teams of preliminary evaluation results |
| TBD | Organizers return review results |
| Synchronized with CCMT 2026 | Final submission of evaluation technical reports |
| 2026.11 | CCMT 2026 conference; release of evaluation summary |
III. Registration
Participants of CCMT 2026 must complete the evaluation registration form and evaluation agreement, and submit them via email to the evaluation organizers. The registration form must be signed by the responsible person and stamped with the institutional seal. No registration fee will be charged for this evaluation. All participating teams must send at least one representative to attend the 22nd China Conference on Machine Translation and Multilingual Technology (CCMT 2026) and participate in academic exchange.
Please send the registration form and related agreements to: ccmt2026_mt_eval@163.com