diff --git a/density.js b/density.js
index 7212c75..fe046bd 100644
--- a/density.js
+++ b/density.js
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
     //default options
     this._options = {
-      stopWordFile: "stopwords.json",
+      stopWordFile: __dirname + "/stopwords.json",
       minKeywordLength: 2,
       maxKeywordLength: 50
     };
@@ -238,4 +238,4 @@
       return density;
     });
   }
-})();
\ No newline at end of file
+})();