diff --git a/examples/summarization/requirements.txt b/examples/summarization/requirements.txt
index 0fbc8285c1..7f9dc2a9c4 100644
--- a/examples/summarization/requirements.txt
+++ b/examples/summarization/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ datasets >= 2.4.0
 sentencepiece != 0.1.92
 protobuf
 rouge-score
-nltk == 3.8.1
+nltk
 py7zr
 torch >= 1.3
 evaluate
diff --git a/examples/summarization/run_summarization.py b/examples/summarization/run_summarization.py
index 2ea2a59528..5ee0d993a8 100755
--- a/examples/summarization/run_summarization.py
+++ b/examples/summarization/run_summarization.py
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ def check_optimum_habana_min_version(*a, **b):
     with FileLock(".lock") as lock:
         nltk.download("punkt", quiet=True)
 
+nltk.download("punkt_tab")  # Needed for version 3.8.2
+
 # A list of all multilingual tokenizer which require lang attribute.
 MULTILINGUAL_TOKENIZERS = [MBartTokenizer, MBartTokenizerFast, MBart50Tokenizer, MBart50TokenizerFast]