diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 6d9742d..4edafd0 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 spacy>=3.0.0
-editdistance==0.6.2
+editdistance==0.8.1
 pytest
 --find-links https://download.pytorch.org/whl/torch_stable.html
 torch>=1.4
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 43fc1c8..694ba75 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
     python_requires=">=3.6",
     install_requires=[
         "torch>=1.4",
-        "editdistance==0.6.2",
+        "editdistance==0.8.1",
         "transformers>=4.0.0",
         "spacy>=3.0.0",
     ],