diff --git a/jcore-opennlp-chunk-ae/pom.xml b/jcore-opennlp-chunk-ae/pom.xml
index d691531cd..10a82baac 100644
--- a/jcore-opennlp-chunk-ae/pom.xml
+++ b/jcore-opennlp-chunk-ae/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.opennlp</groupId>
             <artifactId>opennlp-tools</artifactId>
-            <version>1.6.0</version>
+            <version>1.8.2</version>
             <exclusions>
                 <exclusion>
                     <artifactId>trove</artifactId>