Tokenized BLEU considered harmful - Discussion on community-based process
I second this request. The bottom line is that **scores produced with different reference tokenizations are not comparable**. To discourage (even inadvertent) cheating, the user should never touch the reference. The `v13a` tokenization standard is not ideal, but at least it has been consistently used at matrix.statmt.org, facilitating comparisons.

Sacrebleu exposes [all its data sources](https://github.com/mjpost/sacrebleu/blob/master/sacrebleu/dataset.py) and additionally provides [an API](https://github.com/mjpost/sacrebleu/blob/master/sacrebleu/__init__.py) to accessing the references, which seem to fit within the spirit of your codebase.
https://github.com/huggingface/nlp/blob/7d1526dfeeb29248d832f1073192dbf03ad642da/metrics/bleu/bleu.py#L76 assumes the inputs are tokenized by the user.  This is bad practice because the user's tokenizer is usually not the same as the one used by `mteval-v13a.pl`, the closest thing we have to a standard.  Moreover, tokenizers are like window managers: they can be endlessly customized and nobody has quite the same options.  

As @mjpost reported in https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W18-6319.pdf BLEU configurations can vary by 1.8.  Yet people are incorrectly putting non-comparable BLEU scores in the same table, such as Table 1 in https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04902 .  

There are a few use cases for tokenized BLEU like Thai.  For Chinese, people seem to use character BLEU for better or worse.

The default easy option should be the one that's correct more often.  And that is sacrebleu.  Please don't make it easy for people to run what is usually the wrong option; it definitely shouldn't be `bleu`.  

Also, I know this is inherited from TensorFlow and, paging @lmthang, they should discourage it too.  
Tokenized BLEU considered harmful - Discussion on community-based process 
 https://github.com/huggingface/nlp/blob/7d1526dfeeb29248d832f1073192dbf03ad642da/metrics/bleu/bleu.py#L76 assumes the inputs are tokenized by the user.  This is bad practice because the user's tokenizer is usually not the same as the one used by `mteval-v13a.pl`, the closest thing we have to a standard.  Moreover, tokenizers are like window managers: they can be endlessly customized and nobody has quite the same options.  

As @mjpost reported in https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W18-6319.pdf BLEU configurations can vary by 1.8.  Yet people are incorrectly putting non-comparable BLEU scores in the same table, such as Table 1 in https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04902 .  

There are a few use cases for tokenized BLEU like Thai.  For Chinese, people seem to use character BLEU for better or worse.

The default easy option should be the one that's correct more often.  And that is sacrebleu.  Please don't make it easy for people to run what is usually the wrong option; it definitely shouldn't be `bleu`.  

Also, I know this is inherited from TensorFlow and, paging @lmthang, they should discourage it too.   
 I second this request. The bottom line is that **scores produced with different reference tokenizations are not comparable**. To discourage (even inadvertent) cheating, the user should never touch the reference. The `v13a` tokenization standard is not ideal, but at least it has been consistently used at matrix.statmt.org, facilitating comparisons.

Sacrebleu exposes [all its data sources](https://github.com/mjpost/sacrebleu/blob/master/sacrebleu/dataset.py) and additionally provides [an API](https://github.com/mjpost/sacrebleu/blob/master/sacrebleu/__init__.py) to accessing the references, which seem to fit within the spirit of your codebase.