diff --git a/opencompass/datasets/lawbench/utils/modules/alignment.py b/opencompass/datasets/lawbench/utils/modules/alignment.py
index d11feb74..5330b2fa 100644
--- a/opencompass/datasets/lawbench/utils/modules/alignment.py
+++ b/opencompass/datasets/lawbench/utils/modules/alignment.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ REAL_PATH = os.path.split(os.path.realpath(__file__))[0]
 chinese_punct = "！？｡＂＃＄％＆＇（）＊＋，－／：；＜＝＞＠［＼］＾＿｀｛｜｝～｟｠｢｣､、〃》「」『』【】〔〕〖〗〘〙〚〛〜〝〞〟〰〾〿–—‘'‛“”„‟…‧﹏"
 english_punct = punctuation
 punct = chinese_punct + english_punct
+cache_dir = os.environ.get('COMPASS_DATA_CACHE', '')
 
 def check_all_chinese(word):
     """
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ def read_cilin():
     Cilin 詞林 is a thesaurus with semantic information
     """
     # TODO -- fix this path
-    lines = open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..", "..", "..", "..", "..", "data", "lawbench", "eval_assets", "cilin.txt"), "r", encoding="gbk").read().strip().split("\n")
+    lines = open(os.path.join(cache_dir, "data", "lawbench", "eval_assets", "cilin.txt"), "r", encoding="gbk").read().strip().split("\n")
     semantic_dict = {}
     semantic_classes = {}
     for line in lines:
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ def read_cilin():
 
 def read_confusion():
     confusion_dict = {}
-    with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..", "..", "..", "..", "..", "data", "lawbench", "eval_assets", "confusion_dict.txt"), "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+    with open(os.path.join(cache_dir, "data", "lawbench", "eval_assets", "confusion_dict.txt"), "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
         for line in f:
             li = line.rstrip('\n').split(" ")
             confusion_dict[li[0]] = li[1:]
diff --git a/opencompass/datasets/lawbench/utils/modules/classifier.py b/opencompass/datasets/lawbench/utils/modules/classifier.py
index a8e9b921..b8ee407b 100644
--- a/opencompass/datasets/lawbench/utils/modules/classifier.py
+++ b/opencompass/datasets/lawbench/utils/modules/classifier.py
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ Correction = namedtuple(
         "inds",
     ],
 ) 
-char_smi = CharFuncs(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..", "..", "..", "..", "..", "data", "lawbench", "eval_assets", "char_meta.txt"))
+cache_dir = os.environ.get('COMPASS_DATA_CACHE', '')
+char_smi = CharFuncs(os.path.join(cache_dir, "data", "lawbench", "eval_assets", "char_meta.txt"))
 
 def check_spell_error(src_span: str,
                       tgt_span: str,