diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7306ade..e2ec3d0 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
     <required.maven.version>[${minimum.maven.version},)</required.maven.version>
 
     <!-- Apache OpenNLP binding -->
-    <opennlp.version>2.5.2</opennlp.version>
+    <opennlp.version>2.5.3</opennlp.version>
 
     <!-- Apache commons stuff -->
     <commons.lang3.version>3.17.0</commons.lang3.version>