diff --git a/.github/workflows/benchmark_check.yml b/.github/workflows/benchmark_check.yml
index 4073ce8ca..a9550001e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/benchmark_check.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/benchmark_check.yml
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 name: Benchmark Result Check Lightwood
 
-on:
-  pull_request:
-    branches:
-      - main
+#on:
+#  pull_request:
+#    branches:
+#      - main
 
 jobs:
   check:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/lightwood.yml b/.github/workflows/lightwood.yml
index bc4d6c041..8889c2aa9 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/lightwood.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/lightwood.yml
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ jobs:
       - name: Lint with flake8
         run: |
           poetry run python -m flake8 .
+      - name: Install NLTK data
+        run: |
+          poetry run python -m nltk.downloader punkt
+          poetry run python -m nltk.downloader punkt_tab
+          poetry run python -m nltk.downloader stopwords
       - name: Test with unittest
         run: |
           # Run all the "standard" tests
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index c2095fd4f..aca022b19 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -2483,13 +2483,13 @@ dev = ["black", "flake8", "hyperopt", "matplotlib", "mypy", "nbdev"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "nltk"
-version = "3.8.1"
+version = "3.9.1"
 description = "Natural Language Toolkit"
 optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.7"
+python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
-    {file = "nltk-3.8.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:fd5c9109f976fa86bcadba8f91e47f5e9293bd034474752e92a520f81c93dda5"},
-    {file = "nltk-3.8.1.zip", hash = "sha256:1834da3d0682cba4f2cede2f9aad6b0fafb6461ba451db0efb6f9c39798d64d3"},
+    {file = "nltk-3.9.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:4fa26829c5b00715afe3061398a8989dc643b92ce7dd93fb4585a70930d168a1"},
+    {file = "nltk-3.9.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:87d127bd3de4bd89a4f81265e5fa59cb1b199b27440175370f7417d2bc7ae868"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
@@ -5714,4 +5714,4 @@ xai = ["pyod", "shap", "suod"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.9,<3.12"
-content-hash = "917f58e35cf0f2680c77ba64a7eebd040059d5f8f654f3ee3393ce7611631caf"
+content-hash = "b2f86d631887f3a393b68b68909646a4bc9a6cb5713afa1bd23703ac1549db83"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f783a19b4..63078ffb8 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ type_infer = ">=0.0.15"
 dataprep_ml = ">=24.5.1.2,<24.6.1.0"
 mindsdb-evaluator = ">=0.0.13"
 numpy = ">1.23.0"
-nltk = ">=3.8, <3.9"
+nltk = ">=3.9"
 pandas = ">=2.0.0, <2.1.0"
 torch = ">=2.4.1"
 requests = ">=2.0.0"