diff --git a/server/Dockerfile.aws.lambda b/server/Dockerfile.aws.lambda
index 8e5f0560..a25adde4 100644
--- a/server/Dockerfile.aws.lambda
+++ b/server/Dockerfile.aws.lambda
@@ -8,4 +8,13 @@ COPY . ${LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT}
 COPY requirements.txt .
 RUN pip3 install -r requirements.txt --target "${LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT}" -U --no-cache-dir
 
+# Setup NLTK again in system path to execute nltk.downloader
+RUN pip install nltk
+# Setup directory for NLTK_DATA
+RUN mkdir -p ./nltk_data
+
+# Download NLTK_DATA to build directory
+RUN python -W ignore -m nltk.downloader punkt -d ./nltk_data
+RUN python -W ignore -m nltk.downloader stopwords -d ./nltk_data
+
 CMD ["python", "main.py"]
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