diff --git a/pinecone_text/sparse/bm25_tokenizer.py b/pinecone_text/sparse/bm25_tokenizer.py
index 9513176..298deff 100644
--- a/pinecone_text/sparse/bm25_tokenizer.py
+++ b/pinecone_text/sparse/bm25_tokenizer.py
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ def __init__(
     @staticmethod
     def nltk_setup() -> None:
         try:
-            nltk.data.find("tokenizers/punkt")
+            nltk.data.find("tokenizers/punkt_tab")
         except LookupError:
-            nltk.download("punkt")
+            nltk.download("punkt_tab")
 
         try:
             nltk.data.find("corpora/stopwords")
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_bm25_tokenizer.py b/tests/unit/test_bm25_tokenizer.py
index 5ed1115..95984d6 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_bm25_tokenizer.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_bm25_tokenizer.py
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ def test_nltk_download(self):
             language="english",
         )
 
-        nltk.find("tokenizers/punkt")
+        nltk.find("tokenizers/punkt_tab")
         nltk.find("corpora/stopwords")
 
         assert tokenizer("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog") == [