diff --git a/Formula/a/apache-opennlp.rb b/Formula/a/apache-opennlp.rb
index dea5f54e23ca..7bf77013f246 100644
--- a/Formula/a/apache-opennlp.rb
+++ b/Formula/a/apache-opennlp.rb
@@ -1,20 +1,23 @@
 class ApacheOpennlp < Formula
   desc "Machine learning toolkit for processing natural language text"
   homepage "https://opennlp.apache.org/"
-  url "https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua?path=opennlp/opennlp-2.1.1/apache-opennlp-2.1.1-bin.tar.gz"
-  mirror "https://archive.apache.org/dist/opennlp/opennlp-2.1.1/apache-opennlp-2.1.1-bin.tar.gz"
-  sha256 "b0f9e2a711e348f6a8cee402b0344c92e9edbdc267a23b43bcc02c679aba18bc"
+  url "https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua?path=opennlp/opennlp-2.3.0/apache-opennlp-2.3.0-bin.tar.gz"
+  mirror "https://archive.apache.org/dist/opennlp/opennlp-2.3.0/apache-opennlp-2.3.0-bin.tar.gz"
+  sha256 "d506207db0fe9d23864f36dd6f7b31a42d35028d29fa3c9f89883228eb8522a1"
   license "Apache-2.0"
 
   bottle do
-    sha256 cellar: :any_skip_relocation, all: "cb1202d68368e63957b407ab0719327100ce7d89cdd16dd710c1ad117d4fe3e4"
+    sha256 cellar: :any_skip_relocation, all: "6b36dffdb371955cc8d6ba3abd326142fdbfe5e47aac62bd588f4220d88802ae"
   end
 
   depends_on "openjdk"
 
   def install
     libexec.install Dir["*"]
-    (bin/"opennlp").write_env_script libexec/"bin/opennlp", JAVA_HOME: Formula["openjdk"].opt_prefix
+    (bin/"opennlp").write_env_script libexec/"bin/opennlp", JAVA_HOME:    Formula["openjdk"].opt_prefix,
+                                                            OPENNLP_HOME: libexec
+    # script uses a relative path to the conf folder
+    inreplace libexec/"bin/opennlp", "../conf", "$OPENNLP_HOME/conf"
   end
 
   test do