diff --git a/configs/default/components/publishers/bleu_statistics.yml b/configs/default/components/publishers/bleu_statistics.yml
index a79a245..c51f387 100644
--- a/configs/default/components/publishers/bleu_statistics.yml
+++ b/configs/default/components/publishers/bleu_statistics.yml
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ use_prediction_distributions: True
 # TODO!
 #use_masking: False
 
+# Ignored words - useful for ignoring special tokens
+ignored_words: ["<PAD>", "<EOS>"]
+
 # Weights of n-grams used when calculating the score.
 weights: [0.25, 0.25, 0.25, 0.25]
 
diff --git a/ptp/components/publishers/bleu_statistics.py b/ptp/components/publishers/bleu_statistics.py
index b303ea9..6432c06 100644
--- a/ptp/components/publishers/bleu_statistics.py
+++ b/ptp/components/publishers/bleu_statistics.py
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ def __init__(self, name, config):
         # Get masking flag.
         #self.use_masking = self.config["use_masking"]
 
+        # Get ignored words
+        self.ignored_words = self.config["ignored_words"]
+
         # Retrieve word mappings from globals.
         word_to_ix = self.globals["word_mappings"]
         # Construct reverse mapping for faster processing.
@@ -144,12 +147,16 @@ def calculate_BLEU(self, data_dict):
             target_words = []
             for t_ind in target_indices:
                 if t_ind in self.ix_to_word.keys():
-                    target_words.append(self.ix_to_word[t_ind])
+                    w = self.ix_to_word[t_ind]
+                    if w not in self.ignored_words:
+                        target_words.append(w)
             # Change prediction indices to words.
             pred_words = []
             for p_ind in pred_indices:
                 if p_ind in self.ix_to_word.keys():
-                    pred_words.append(self.ix_to_word[p_ind])
+                    w = self.ix_to_word[p_ind]
+                    if w not in self.ignored_words:
+                        pred_words.append(w)
             # Calculate BLEU.
             scores.append(sentence_bleu([target_words], pred_words, self.weights))
             #print("TARGET: {}\n".format(target_words))