diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-publish.yml b/.github/workflows/python-publish.yml
index 9c6564e..ae4fd82 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python-publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-publish.yml
@@ -33,9 +33,6 @@ jobs:
     - name: Extract tag name
       id: tag
       run: echo ::set-output name=TAG_NAME::$(echo $GITHUB_REF | cut -d / -f 3)
-    - name: Update version in setup.py
-      run: >-
-        sed -i "s/{{VERSION_PLACEHOLDER}}/${{ steps.tag.outputs.TAG_NAME }}/g" setup.py
     - name: Build package
       run: python -m build
     - name: Publish package
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 533e1ca..f1ef832 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,183 +1,5 @@
-aiohttp==3.8.4
-aiosignal==1.3.1
-alabaster==0.7.13
-allennlp==2.9.3
-argon2-cffi==21.3.0
-argon2-cffi-bindings==21.2.0
-asttokens==2.0.5
-async-timeout==4.0.2
-attrs==21.4.0
-Babel==2.12.1
-backcall==0.2.0
-base58==2.1.1
-beautifulsoup4==4.11.1
-bleach==5.0.1
-blis==0.7.8
-boto3==1.24.28
-botocore==1.27.28
-cached-path==1.1.5
-cachetools==5.2.0
-catalogue==2.0.7
-certifi==2022.6.15
-cffi==1.15.1
-charset-normalizer==2.1.0
-click==8.0.4
-commonmark==0.9.1
-cymem==2.0.6
-debugpy==1.6.2
-decorator==5.1.1
-defusedxml==0.7.1
-dill==0.3.5.1
-docker-pycreds==0.4.0
-docutils==0.19
-emoji==2.0.0
-entrypoints==0.4
-executing==0.9.1
-fairscale==0.4.6
-fastjsonschema==2.16.1
-filelock==3.6.0
-frozenlist==1.3.3
-furo==2023.3.27
-gitdb==4.0.9
-GitPython==3.1.27
-google-api-core==2.8.2
-google-auth==2.9.1
-google-cloud-core==2.3.1
-google-cloud-storage==2.4.0
-google-crc32c==1.3.0
-google-resumable-media==2.3.3
-googleapis-common-protos==1.56.4
-h5py==3.7.0
-huggingface-hub==0.8.1
-idna==3.3
-imagesize==1.4.1
-importlib-metadata==6.3.0
-importlib-resources==5.9.0
-iniconfig==1.1.1
-ipykernel==6.15.1
-ipython==8.4.0
-ipython-genutils==0.2.0
-jedi==0.18.1
-Jinja2==3.1.2
-jmespath==1.0.1
-joblib==1.1.0
-jsonnet==0.18.0
-jsonschema==4.9.0
-jupyter-client==7.3.4
-jupyter-core==4.11.1
-jupyterlab-pygments==0.2.2
-langcodes==3.3.0
-lmdb==1.3.0
-MarkupSafe==2.1.1
-matplotlib-inline==0.1.3
-mistune==0.8.4
-more-itertools==8.13.0
-multidict==6.0.4
-murmurhash==1.0.7
-nbclient==0.6.6
-nbconvert==6.5.0
-nbformat==5.4.0
-nbsphinx==0.9.1
-nest-asyncio==1.5.5
-networkx==2.8.1
-nltk==3.6.7
-notebook==6.4.12
-numpy==1.23.1
-openai==0.27.2
-packaging==21.3
-pandas==1.4.3
-pandoc==2.3
-pandocfilters==1.5.0
-parso==0.8.3
-pathtools==0.1.2
-pathy==0.6.2
-pexpect==4.8.0
-pickleshare==0.7.5
-Pillow==9.2.0
-pkgutil-resolve-name==1.3.10
-pluggy==1.0.0
-plumbum==1.8.1
-ply==3.11
-preshed==3.0.6
-prometheus-client==0.14.1
-promise==2.3
-prompt-toolkit==3.0.30
-protobuf==3.20.1
-psutil==5.9.1
-ptyprocess==0.7.0
-pure-eval==0.2.2
-py==1.11.0
-py-heideltime==1.0.3
-py4j==0.10.9.5
-pyasn1==0.4.8
-pyasn1-modules==0.2.8
-pycparser==2.21
-pydantic==1.8.2
-Pygments==2.15.0
-pyparsing==3.0.9
-pyrsistent==0.18.1
-pyspark==3.3.0
-pytest==7.1.2
-python-dateutil==2.8.2
-pytz==2022.2
-PyYAML==6.0
-pyzmq==23.2.0
-regex==2022.7.9
-requests==2.28.1
-rich==12.5.1
-rsa==4.8
-s3transfer==0.6.0
-sacremoses==0.0.53
-scikit-learn==1.1.1
-scipy==1.8.1
-Send2Trash==1.8.0
-sentencepiece==0.1.96
-sentry-sdk==1.7.1
-setproctitle==1.2.3
-shortuuid==1.0.9
-six==1.16.0
-smart-open==5.2.1
-smmap==5.0.0
-snowballstemmer==2.2.0
-soupsieve==2.3.2.post1
-spacy==3.2.4
-spacy-legacy==3.0.9
-spacy-loggers==1.0.2
-spark-nlp==4.1.0
-sparknlp==1.0.0
-sphinx==6.1.3
-sphinx-basic-ng==1.0.0b1
-sphinx-copybutton==0.5.1
-sphinxcontrib-applehelp==1.0.4
-sphinxcontrib-devhelp==1.0.2
-sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp==2.0.1
-sphinxcontrib-jsmath==1.0.1
-sphinxcontrib-qthelp==1.0.3
-sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml==1.1.5
-srsly==2.4.3
-stack-data==0.3.0
-tabulate==0.8.9
-tensorboardX==2.5.1
-termcolor==1.1.0
-terminado==0.15.0
-thinc==8.0.17
-threadpoolctl==3.1.0
-tinycss2==1.1.1
-tokenizers==0.12.1
-tomli==2.0.1
-torch==1.11.0
-torchvision==0.12.0
-tornado==6.2
-tqdm==4.64.0
-traitlets==5.3.0
-transformers==4.18.0
-typer==0.4.2
-typing-extensions==4.3.0
-urllib3==1.26.10
-wandb==0.12.21
-wasabi==0.9.1
-wcwidth==0.2.5
-webencodings==0.5.1
-xmltodict==0.12.0
-yarl==1.8.2
-zipp==3.8.1
+nltk
+xmltodict
+networkx>=2.8.1
+py_heideltime
+cached-path
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index bd4375e..d42d7a3 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,25 +1,44 @@
-from setuptools import find_packages
-from setuptools import setup
+from setuptools import find_packages, setup
+import subprocess
+import os
+from pathlib import Path
+
+PWD = Path(__file__).parent.resolve()
+
+README = (PWD / "README.md").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+version = (
+    subprocess.run(["git", "describe", "--tags"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+    .stdout.decode("utf-8")
+    .strip()
+)
+
+if "-" in version:
+    # See: https://peps.python.org/pep-0440/#local-version-segments
+    v, i, s = version.split("-")
+    version = v + "+" + i + ".git." + s
+
+# assert os.path.isfile("tieval/version.py")
+version_path = PWD / "tieval" / "VERSION"
+version_path.write_text(f"{version}\n", encoding="utf-8")
 
-with open("README.md", encoding="utf-8") as f:
-    README = f.read()
 
 setup(
     name="tieval",
-    version='{{VERSION_PLACEHOLDER}}',
+    version=version,
     url="https://github.com/LIAAD/tieval",
     license='MIT',
     author="Hugo Sousa",
     author_email="hugo.o.sousa@inesctec.pt",
-    description=
-    "This framework facilitates the development and test of temporal-aware models.",
+    description="This framework facilitates the development and test of temporal-aware models.",
     long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
     long_description=README,
     packages=find_packages(exclude=('tests*',)),
+    package_data={"tieval": ["VERSION"]},
     install_requires=[
-        "allennlp==2.9.3",
+        # "allennlp==2.9.3",
         "nltk",
-        "tabulate",
         "xmltodict",
         "networkx>=2.8.1",
         "py_heideltime",