diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0a79d16884eb618b10fde8b0b9992108aa7f39dc..b2ca3519160fecc781b96617b454a2b650e87bb2 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ setup(
         'tensorflow==1.14',
         'tensorboard>=1.14.0',
         'tensorboardX==1.7',
-        'allennlp',
+        'allennlp==0.9.0',
         'requests',
         'simplejson',
         'spacy',