diff --git a/chatter/chatterbot/chatterbot.py b/chatter/chatterbot/chatterbot.py
index 765e47c..988482f 100644
--- a/chatter/chatterbot/chatterbot.py
+++ b/chatter/chatterbot/chatterbot.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 import logging
 
-from . import utils
+from chatter.chatterbot import utils
 from chatter.chatterbot.input import InputAdapter
 from chatter.chatterbot.output import OutputAdapter
 from chatter.chatterbot.storage import StorageAdapter
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ class ChatBot(object):
         """
         Learn that the statement provided is a valid response.
         """
-        from .conversation import Response
+        from chatter.chatterbot.conversation import Response
 
         if previous_statement:
             statement.add_response(
diff --git a/chatter/chatterbot/comparisons.py b/chatter/chatterbot/comparisons.py
index 59efa95..5e253a0 100644
--- a/chatter/chatterbot/comparisons.py
+++ b/chatter/chatterbot/comparisons.py
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ class SynsetDistance(Comparator):
         """
         Download required NLTK corpora if they have not already been downloaded.
         """
-        from .utils import nltk_download_corpus
+        from chatter.chatterbot.utils import nltk_download_corpus
 
         nltk_download_corpus('corpora/wordnet')
 
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ class SynsetDistance(Comparator):
         """
         Download required NLTK corpora if they have not already been downloaded.
         """
-        from .utils import nltk_download_corpus
+        from chatter.chatterbot.utils import nltk_download_corpus
 
         nltk_download_corpus('tokenizers/punkt')
 
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ class SynsetDistance(Comparator):
         """
         Download required NLTK corpora if they have not already been downloaded.
         """
-        from .utils import nltk_download_corpus
+        from chatter.chatterbot.utils import nltk_download_corpus
 
         nltk_download_corpus('corpora/stopwords')
 
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ class SentimentComparison(Comparator):
         Download the NLTK vader lexicon for sentiment analysis
         that is required for this algorithm to run.
         """
-        from .utils import nltk_download_corpus
+        from chatter.chatterbot.utils import nltk_download_corpus
 
         nltk_download_corpus('sentiment/vader_lexicon')
 
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ class JaccardSimilarity(Comparator):
         Download the NLTK wordnet corpora that is required for this algorithm
         to run only if the corpora has not already been downloaded.
         """
-        from .utils import nltk_download_corpus
+        from chatter.chatterbot.utils import nltk_download_corpus
 
         nltk_download_corpus('corpora/wordnet')
 
diff --git a/chatter/chatterbot/trainers.py b/chatter/chatterbot/trainers.py
index 042019e..f3a4165 100644
--- a/chatter/chatterbot/trainers.py
+++ b/chatter/chatterbot/trainers.py
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ import logging
 import os
 import sys
 
-from . import utils
-from .conversation import Statement, Response
+from chatter.chatterbot import utils
+from chatter.chatterbot.conversation import Statement, Response
 
 
 class Trainer(object):
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ class ChatterBotCorpusTrainer(Trainer):
 
     def __init__(self, storage, **kwargs):
         super(ChatterBotCorpusTrainer, self).__init__(storage, **kwargs)
-        from .corpus import Corpus
+        from chatter.chatterbot.corpus import Corpus
 
         self.corpus = Corpus()
 
diff --git a/chatter/chatterbot/utils.py b/chatter/chatterbot/utils.py
index e18549e..9785bd4 100644
--- a/chatter/chatterbot/utils.py
+++ b/chatter/chatterbot/utils.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ def validate_adapter_class(validate_class, adapter_class):
 
     :raises: Adapter.InvalidAdapterTypeException
     """
-    from .adapters import Adapter
+    from chatter.chatterbot.adapters import Adapter
 
     # If a dictionary was passed in, check if it has an import_path attribute
     if isinstance(validate_class, dict):