# Sacrebleu scoring method always returns score of 0?

**URL:** <https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/sacrebleu-scoring-method-always-returns-score-of-0/70408>\
**Category:** NLP with Attention Models\
**Tags:** week-module-1\
**Created:** [November 30, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/sacrebleu-scoring-method-always-returns-score-of-0/70408 "2021-11-30T18:16:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kyle\_Hale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dfb087/32.png) [@Kyle\_Hale](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/Kyle_Hale)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/sacrebleu-scoring-method-always-returns-score-of-0/70408/1 "2021-11-30T18:16:53Z")

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Hi, in the notebook for BLEU scoring, there’s a separate call to the external library sacrebleu to use as a comparison with the custom BLEU scoring method, but the actual results of the sacrebleu scoring calls are always 0.0

Can somebody verify this isn’t expected behavior?

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**Author:** ![Mubsi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/dlai/user_avatar/community.deeplearning.ai/mubsi/32/94983_2.png) [@Mubsi](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/Mubsi)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 7:30am UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/sacrebleu-scoring-method-always-returns-score-of-0/70408/2 "2022-08-22T07:30:44Z")

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