diff --git a/.secrets.baseline b/.secrets.baseline
index 32b037230..6ddf4c07e 100644
--- a/.secrets.baseline
+++ b/.secrets.baseline
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
     "files": "^.secrets.baseline$",
     "lines": null
   },
-  "generated_at": "2024-07-09T07:07:12Z",
+  "generated_at": "2024-07-22T10:56:00Z",
   "plugins_used": [
     {
       "name": "AWSKeyDetector"
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
         "hashed_secret": "fa172616e9af3d2a24b5597f264eab963fe76889",
         "is_secret": false,
         "is_verified": false,
-        "line_number": 1531,
+        "line_number": 1607,
         "type": "Hex High Entropy String",
         "verified_result": null
       }
diff --git a/prepare/metrics/meteor.py b/prepare/metrics/meteor.py
index c90b3d7cb..626198210 100644
--- a/prepare/metrics/meteor.py
+++ b/prepare/metrics/meteor.py
@@ -1,8 +1,65 @@
 from unitxt import add_to_catalog
-from unitxt.metrics import HuggingfaceMetric
+from unitxt.metrics import HuggingfaceMetric, Meteor
+from unitxt.test_utils.metrics import test_metric
 
-metric = HuggingfaceMetric(
+metric = Meteor()
+
+predictions = [
+    "It is a guide to action which ensures that the military always obeys the commands of the party",
+    "We strive for peace",
+    "On the rag sat the cat",
+    "I caught the ball",
+]
+references = [
+    [
+        "It is a guide to action that ensures that the military will forever heed Party commands"
+    ],
+    ["We hope for peace"],
+    ["The cat sat on the rag"],
+    ["He threw the ball"],
+]
+
+# the floats shown here are rounded just for the test. the actually
+# returned score are 15-16 digits to the right of the decimal point
+instance_targets = [
+    {"meteor": 0.69, "score": 0.69, "score_name": "meteor"},
+    {"meteor": 0.64, "score": 0.64, "score_name": "meteor"},
+    {"meteor": 0.5, "score": 0.5, "score_name": "meteor"},
+    {"meteor": 0.47, "score": 0.47, "score_name": "meteor"},
+]
+
+global_target = {
+    "meteor": 0.58,
+    "meteor_ci_high": 0.59,
+    "meteor_ci_low": 0.58,
+    "score": 0.58,
+    "score_ci_high": 0.59,
+    "score_ci_low": 0.58,
+    "score_name": "meteor",
+}
+
+metric.n_resamples = 3
+# to match the setting to occur by testing on the global version, metric2, below
+
+outputs = test_metric(
+    metric=metric,
+    predictions=predictions,
+    references=references,
+    instance_targets=instance_targets,
+    global_target=global_target,
+)
+
+# compare results with the HF version of meteor
+metric2 = HuggingfaceMetric(
     hf_metric_name="meteor", main_score="meteor", prediction_type="str"
 )
 
+outputs = test_metric(
+    metric=metric2,
+    predictions=predictions,
+    references=references,
+    instance_targets=instance_targets,
+    global_target=global_target,
+)
+
 add_to_catalog(metric, "metrics.meteor", overwrite=True)
diff --git a/prepare/metrics/rouge.py b/prepare/metrics/rouge.py
index 56517b6c6..357806c54 100644
--- a/prepare/metrics/rouge.py
+++ b/prepare/metrics/rouge.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 from unitxt.metrics import Rouge
 from unitxt.test_utils.metrics import test_metric
 
-metric = Rouge(n_resamples=None)
+metric = Rouge()
 
 predictions = ["hello there", "general kenobi"]
 references = [["hello", "there"], ["general kenobi", "general yoda"]]
@@ -28,13 +28,22 @@
 
 global_target = {
     "rouge1": 0.83,
+    "rouge1_ci_high": 1.0,
+    "rouge1_ci_low": 0.67,
     "rouge2": 0.5,
+    "rouge2_ci_high": 1.0,
+    "rouge2_ci_low": 0.0,
     "rougeL": 0.83,
+    "rougeL_ci_high": 1.0,
+    "rougeL_ci_low": 0.67,
     "rougeLsum": 0.83,
+    "rougeLsum_ci_high": 1.0,
+    "rougeLsum_ci_low": 0.67,
     "score": 0.83,
+    "score_ci_high": 1.0,
+    "score_ci_low": 0.67,
     "score_name": "rougeL",
 }
-
 outputs = test_metric(
     metric=metric,
     predictions=predictions,
@@ -43,27 +52,12 @@
     global_target=global_target,
 )
 add_to_catalog(metric, "metrics.rouge", overwrite=True)
-
-global_target_with_confidence_intervals = global_target.copy()
-global_target_with_confidence_intervals.update(
-    {
-        "rougeL_ci_low": 0.83,
-        "rougeL_ci_high": 0.83,
-        "score_ci_low": 0.83,
-        "score_ci_high": 0.83,
-    }
+metric = Rouge(
+    __description__="This is deprecated. Use 'metrics.rouge' which also generate confidence intervals"
 )
 
-metric_with_confidence_intervals = Rouge()
-outputs = test_metric(
-    metric=metric_with_confidence_intervals,
-    predictions=predictions,
-    references=references,
-    instance_targets=instance_targets,
-    global_target=global_target_with_confidence_intervals,
-)
 add_to_catalog(
-    metric_with_confidence_intervals,
+    metric,
     "metrics.rouge_with_confidence_intervals",
     overwrite=True,
 )
diff --git a/src/unitxt/catalog/metrics/meteor.json b/src/unitxt/catalog/metrics/meteor.json
index 293c6eae8..1b36f4d7f 100644
--- a/src/unitxt/catalog/metrics/meteor.json
+++ b/src/unitxt/catalog/metrics/meteor.json
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
 {
-    "__type__": "huggingface_metric",
-    "hf_metric_name": "meteor",
-    "main_score": "meteor",
-    "prediction_type": "str"
+    "__type__": "meteor"
 }
diff --git a/src/unitxt/catalog/metrics/rouge.json b/src/unitxt/catalog/metrics/rouge.json
index 448f21f09..82844033a 100644
--- a/src/unitxt/catalog/metrics/rouge.json
+++ b/src/unitxt/catalog/metrics/rouge.json
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 {
-    "__type__": "rouge",
-    "n_resamples": null
+    "__type__": "rouge"
 }
diff --git a/src/unitxt/catalog/metrics/rouge_with_confidence_intervals.json b/src/unitxt/catalog/metrics/rouge_with_confidence_intervals.json
index 82844033a..85da472ec 100644
--- a/src/unitxt/catalog/metrics/rouge_with_confidence_intervals.json
+++ b/src/unitxt/catalog/metrics/rouge_with_confidence_intervals.json
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 {
-    "__type__": "rouge"
+    "__type__": "rouge",
+    "__description__": "This is deprecated. Use 'metrics.rouge' which also generate confidence intervals"
 }
diff --git a/src/unitxt/metrics.py b/src/unitxt/metrics.py
index 73fadeb2a..79e720699 100644
--- a/src/unitxt/metrics.py
+++ b/src/unitxt/metrics.py
@@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ def score_based_confidence_interval(
             # otherwise, the aggregation_func needs to be applied AFTER resampling the instances;
             #   that is, re-form the groups, calculate the function, and take the mean of the group scores
             aggregation_func = self.average_item_scores
+
         for score_name in score_names:
             # If all computed instance level scores are the same, there is no point in computing
             # confidence intervals. So skip to the next score.
@@ -1300,6 +1301,81 @@ def compute(
         return results
 
 
+class HuggingfaceInstanceMetric(InstanceMetric):
+    hf_metric_name: str
+
+    hf_metric_fields: List[str]
+    hf_compute_args: dict = {}
+
+    def prepare(self):
+        super().prepare()
+        self.metric = evaluate.load(
+            self.hf_metric_name, experiment_id=str(uuid.uuid4())
+        )
+
+    def compute(self, references: List[Any], prediction: Any, task_data: Dict) -> dict:
+        # invokes  module.compute, which invokes, e.g., meteor's _compute
+
+        try:
+            score = self.metric.compute(
+                predictions=[prediction],
+                references=[references],
+                **self.hf_compute_args,
+            )
+        except:
+            score = {self.main_score: np.nan}
+
+        if self.hf_metric_fields is not None and len(self.hf_metric_fields) > 0:
+            to_ret = {field: score[field] for field in self.hf_metric_fields}
+            score = to_ret
+
+        return score
+
+
+class Meteor(InstanceMetric):
+    main_score = "meteor"
+    ci_scores = ["meteor"]
+    reduction_map = {"mean": ["meteor"]}
+    prediction_type = "str"
+
+    _requirements_list: List[str] = ["nltk"]
+    alpha: float = 0.9
+    beta: int = 3
+    gamma: float = 0.5
+    # unitxt uses nltk version >= 3.8
+
+    def prepare(self):
+        import nltk
+
+        nltk.download("wordnet", quiet=True)
+        nltk.download("omw-1.4", quiet=True)
+        from nltk import word_tokenize
+        from nltk.translate import meteor_score
+
+        self.word_tokenize = word_tokenize
+        self.meteor_score = meteor_score
+
+    def verify(self):
+        import importlib.metadata as importlib_metadata
+
+        from datasets.config import version
+
+        nltk_version = version.parse(importlib_metadata.version("nltk"))
+        assert nltk_version >= version.Version(
+            "3.6.6"
+        ), "nltk version must be at least 3.6.6"
+
+    def compute(self, references, prediction, task_data):
+        score = self.meteor_score.meteor_score(
+            [self.word_tokenize(ref) for ref in references],
+            self.word_tokenize(prediction),
+            alpha=self.alpha,
+            beta=self.beta,
+            gamma=self.gamma,
+        )
+        return {"meteor": score}
+
+
 class F1(GlobalMetric):
     _metric = None
     main_score = "f1_macro"
@@ -1691,7 +1767,49 @@ class F1MacroMultiLabel(F1MultiLabel):
     average = None
 
 
-class Rouge(HuggingfaceMetric):
+class Rouge(InstanceMetric):
+    main_score = "rougeL"
+    prediction_type = "str"
+    single_reference_per_prediction = False  # multiple references allowed
+    rouge_types: List[str] = ["rouge1", "rouge2", "rougeL", "rougeLsum"]
+    reduction_map = {"mean": ["rouge1", "rouge2", "rougeL", "rougeLsum"]}
+    ci_scores = ["rouge1", "rouge2", "rougeL", "rougeLsum"]
+
+    sent_split_newline: bool = True
+    _requirements_list: List[str] = ["nltk", "rouge_score"]
+
+    def prepare(self):
+        import nltk
+        from rouge_score import rouge_scorer
+
+        self.rouge_scorer = rouge_scorer
+
+        nltk.download("punkt", quiet=True)
+        self.sent_tokenize = nltk.sent_tokenize
+
+    def compute(self, references: List[Any], prediction: Any, task_data: Dict) -> dict:
+        # for a single instance, prediction is of type str, and references: list of str
+        if self.sent_split_newline:
+            prediction = "\n".join(self.sent_tokenize(prediction.strip()))
+
+            references = [
+                "\n".join(self.sent_tokenize(reference.strip()))
+                for reference in references
+            ]
+
+        # the following is taken from HF rouge, using the defaults:
+        # use_aggregator=True, use_stemmer=False, tokenizer=None
+        scorer = self.rouge_scorer.RougeScorer(
+            rouge_types=self.rouge_types, use_stemmer=False, tokenizer=None
+        )
+        # with Unitxt, references is a list
+        score = scorer.score_multi(references, prediction)
+        for key in score:
+            score[key] = score[key].fmeasure
+        return score
+
+
+class RougeHF(HuggingfaceInstanceMetric):
     hf_metric_name = "rouge"
     main_score = "rougeL"
     scale = 1.0
@@ -1699,8 +1817,10 @@ class Rouge(HuggingfaceMetric):
     prediction_type = "str"
     single_reference_per_prediction = False  # multiple references allowed
 
-    use_aggregator: bool = True
     rouge_types: List[str] = ["rouge1", "rouge2", "rougeL", "rougeLsum"]
+    reduction_map = {"mean": ["rouge1", "rouge2", "rougeL", "rougeLsum"]}
+    hf_metric_fields = ["rouge1", "rouge2", "rougeL", "rougeLsum"]
+    ci_scores = ["rouge1", "rouge2", "rougeL", "rougeLsum"]
 
     sent_split_newline: bool = True
 
@@ -1709,26 +1829,33 @@ class Rouge(HuggingfaceMetric):
     def prepare(self):
         super().prepare()
 
+        # We don't use the aggregation, to avoid running bootstrapping by the
+        # internal library (which is costly) and done by Unitxt in any case.
         self.hf_compute_args.update(
-            {"use_aggregator": self.use_aggregator, "rouge_types": self.rouge_types}
+            {"use_aggregator": False, "rouge_types": self.rouge_types}
         )
 
         import nltk
 
-        nltk.download("punkt")
+        nltk.download("punkt", quiet=True)
         self.sent_tokenize = nltk.sent_tokenize
 
-    def compute(self, references, predictions, task_data: List[Dict]):
+    def compute(self, references, prediction, task_data: List[Dict]):
+        # for a single instance, prediction is of type str, and references: list of str
         if self.sent_split_newline:
-            predictions = [
-                "\n".join(self.sent_tokenize(prediction.strip()))
-                for prediction in predictions
-            ]
+            prediction = "\n".join(self.sent_tokenize(prediction.strip()))
+
             references = [
-                ["\n".join(self.sent_tokenize(r.strip())) for r in reference]
+                "\n".join(self.sent_tokenize(reference.strip()))
                 for reference in references
             ]
-        return super().compute(references, predictions, task_data)
+
+        hf_score = super().compute(references, prediction, task_data)
+        for metric_field in self.hf_metric_fields:
+            if isinstance(hf_score[metric_field], list):
+                assert len(hf_score[metric_field]) == 1
+                hf_score[metric_field] = hf_score[metric_field][0]
+        return hf_score
 
 
 # Computes char edit distance, ignoring whitespace
diff --git a/src/unitxt/standard.py b/src/unitxt/standard.py
index 3b110644f..eed5cde04 100644
--- a/src/unitxt/standard.py
+++ b/src/unitxt/standard.py
@@ -96,6 +96,16 @@ def verify(self):
                 raise ValueError(
                     f"max_train_instances should not exceed loader_limit ({self.loader_limit}), Got max_train_instances={self.max_train_instances}"
                 )
+        if self.metrics is not None and not isinstance(self.metrics, List):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"metrics must be a list of metrics.  Got metrics = {self.metrics}"
+            )
+        if self.postprocessors is not None and not isinstance(
+            self.postprocessors, List
+        ):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"post processors must be a list of post processor.  Got postprocessors = {self.postprocessors}"
+            )
 
     def prepare_refiners(self):
         self.train_refiner.max_instances = self.max_train_instances
diff --git a/tests/library/test_metric_utils.py b/tests/library/test_metric_utils.py
index 1f13b43e3..c03ab306c 100644
--- a/tests/library/test_metric_utils.py
+++ b/tests/library/test_metric_utils.py
@@ -21,12 +21,16 @@ class AvgRougeNoBootstrap(Rouge):
             def prepare(self):
                 self.n_resamples = None
                 self.rouge_types = ["rougeL"]
+                self.ci_scores = ["rougeL"]
+                self.hf_metric_fields = ["rougeL"]
+                self.reduction_map = {"mean": ["rougeL"]}
                 self.use_aggregator = False
                 super().prepare()
 
-            def compute(self, references, predictions, task_data: List[Dict]):
-                res_list = super().compute(references, predictions, task_data)["rougeL"]
-                return {"rougeL": nanmean(res_list)}
+            def compute(self, references, prediction, task_data: List[Dict]):
+                # single score for a single instance
+                res = super().compute(references, prediction, task_data)["rougeL"]
+                return {"rougeL": res}
 
         metric = AvgRougeNoBootstrap()
         references = [
diff --git a/tests/library/test_metrics.py b/tests/library/test_metrics.py
index 9c5a1991e..f1a3f27d9 100644
--- a/tests/library/test_metrics.py
+++ b/tests/library/test_metrics.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from math import isnan
+from typing import Dict, List
 
 from unitxt.inference import MockInferenceEngine
 from unitxt.llm_as_judge import LLMAsJudge
@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@
     GroupMeanAccuracy,
     GroupMeanStringContainment,
     GroupMeanTokenOverlap,
+    HuggingfaceMetric,
     KendallTauMetric,
     LlamaIndexCorrectness,
     MaxAccuracy,
@@ -799,19 +801,54 @@ def test_rouge(self):
         global_target = 5 / 6
         self.assertAlmostEqual(global_target, outputs[0]["score"]["global"]["score"])
 
-    def test_rouge_l(self):
-        metric = Rouge(
-            n_resamples=None,  # disable confidence interval calculation which fails for this metric configuration
-            use_aggregator=False,
-            rouge_types=["rougeL"],
-        )
-        references = [["hello", "there"], ["general kenobi", "general yoda"]]
-        predictions = ["hello there", "general kenobi"]
+        # compare with the HF implementation
+        class OldRouge(HuggingfaceMetric):
+            hf_metric_name = "rouge"
+            main_score = "rougeL"
+            scale = 1.0
+
+            prediction_type = "str"
+            single_reference_per_prediction = False  # multiple references allowed
+
+            use_aggregator: bool = True
+            rouge_types: List[str] = ["rouge1", "rouge2", "rougeL", "rougeLsum"]
+
+            sent_split_newline: bool = True
+
+            _requirements_list: List[str] = ["nltk", "rouge_score"]
+
+            def prepare(self):
+                super().prepare()
+
+                self.hf_compute_args.update(
+                    {
+                        "use_aggregator": self.use_aggregator,
+                        "rouge_types": self.rouge_types,
+                    }
+                )
+
+                import nltk
+
+                nltk.download("punkt")
+                self.sent_tokenize = nltk.sent_tokenize
+
+            def compute(self, references, predictions, task_data: List[Dict]):
+                if self.sent_split_newline:
+                    predictions = [
+                        "\n".join(self.sent_tokenize(prediction.strip()))
+                        for prediction in predictions
+                    ]
+                    references = [
+                        ["\n".join(self.sent_tokenize(r.strip())) for r in reference]
+                        for reference in references
+                    ]
+                return super().compute(references, predictions, task_data)
+
+        metric = OldRouge()
         outputs = apply_metric(
             metric=metric, predictions=predictions, references=references
         )
-        global_target = [2 / 3, 1.0]
-        self.assertListEqual(global_target, outputs[0]["score"]["global"]["score"])
+        self.assertAlmostEqual(global_target, outputs[0]["score"]["global"]["score"])
 
     def test_token_overlap(self):
         metric = TokenOverlap()