Update dependencies and fix to non-breaking versions (HuggingFace, Numpy, Lxml) - some third party dependencies had been updated and were breaking the install.

Also, we have just had three fantastic pull requests in the Python repository:

• Batch code courtesy of @makrianast: Allow batching of items when sent to LLM by Anastasia original issue
• Strip prefixes code courtesy of @abdullahwaqar feat(utils): Add strip_prefixes function to remove common question prefix by Abdullah original issue
• Crosswalk table generation courtesy of @vkrithika25 Added crosswalk table + unit tests by Krithika original issue