diff --git a/jcore-opennlp-sentence-ae/pom.xml b/jcore-opennlp-sentence-ae/pom.xml
index d2e778487..6bda0f2f5 100644
--- a/jcore-opennlp-sentence-ae/pom.xml
+++ b/jcore-opennlp-sentence-ae/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.opennlp</groupId>
             <artifactId>opennlp-tools</artifactId>
-            <version>1.6.0</version>
+            <version>1.8.2</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>net.sf.trove4j</groupId>