diff --git a/tests/test_end_to_end.py b/tests/test_end_to_end.py
index 7d551d7..85d8cd7 100644
--- a/tests/test_end_to_end.py
+++ b/tests/test_end_to_end.py
@@ -44,6 +44,31 @@ def get_test_data():
     return test_data, test_wt
 
 
+def test_ulmfit_works_with_relative_paths():
+    """  Test ulmfit with (default) Moses tokenizer on small wikipedia dataset.
+    """
+    os.chdir(get_data_folder()/"..")
+
+
+    test_data, wt2 = get_test_data()
+    lm_name = 'end-to-end-test-default'
+    cuda_id = 0
+    exp = ulmfit.pretrain_lm.LMHyperParams(
+        dataset_path=wt2.relative_to(Path.cwd()),
+        lang='en',
+        qrnn=True,
+        max_vocab=1000,
+        bs=2,
+        name=lm_name)
+
+    exp.train_lm(num_epochs=1)
+
+    #assert exp.results['accuracy'] > 0.02
+
+    exp2 = ulmfit.train_clas.CLSHyperParams.from_lm(test_data / 'imdb', exp.model_dir)
+    exp2.train_cls(num_lm_epochs=1, unfreeze=False, bs=4,)
+
+
 def test_ulmfit_default_end_to_end():
     """  Test ulmfit with (default) Moses tokenizer on small wikipedia dataset.
     """
diff --git a/ulmfit/pretrain_lm.py b/ulmfit/pretrain_lm.py
index 0bab350..05af939 100644
--- a/ulmfit/pretrain_lm.py
+++ b/ulmfit/pretrain_lm.py
@@ -243,8 +243,8 @@ class LMHyperParams:
 
     @classmethod
     def from_lm(cls, dataset_path, base_lm_path, **kwargs) -> 'LMHyperParams':
-        base_lm_path = Path(base_lm_path)
-        dataset_path = Path(dataset_path)
+        base_lm_path = Path(base_lm_path).resolve()
+        dataset_path = Path(dataset_path).resolve()
         with open(base_lm_path/'info.json', 'r') as f: d = json.load(f)
         d['dataset_path'] = dataset_path
         d['base_lm_path'] = base_lm_path