diff --git a/ngrams/term_frequencies.py b/ngrams/term_frequencies.py
index 3597a41..d0eb82d 100755
--- a/ngrams/term_frequencies.py
+++ b/ngrams/term_frequencies.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ from nltk.corpus import stopwords
 from nltk.util import ngrams
 import string
 from random import random
+from pathlib import Path
 
 # remove urls
 # taken from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3809401/what-is-a-good-regular-expression-to-match-a-url
@@ -222,9 +223,10 @@ def gen_task_list(mwe_pass='first',
     files = os.listdir(input_parquet)
     
     with open("tf_task_list",'w') as outfile:
+        curdir = Path('.')
         for f in files:
             if f.endswith(".parquet"):
-                outfile.write(f"./term_frequencies.py weekly_tf {f} --mwe-pass {mwe_pass} --input-parquet {input_parquet} --output-01p-sample-path {output_10p_sample_path} --temp-output-tfidf-path {temp_output_tfidf_path} --output-terms-path {output_terms_path} --output-authors-path {output_terms_path} --dataset {dataset}\n")
+                outfile.write(f"{str(curdir.absolute())}/term_frequencies.py weekly_tf {f} --mwe-pass {mwe_pass} --input-parquet {input_parquet} --output-01p-sample-path {output_10p_sample_path} --temp-output-tfidf-path {temp_output_tfidf_path} --output-terms-path {output_terms_path} --output-authors-path {output_terms_path} --dataset {dataset}\n")
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     fire.Fire({"gen_task_list":gen_task_list,