# How does Rasa NLU Intent Classification use Tokenization?

**URL:** <https://forum.rasa.com/t/how-does-rasa-nlu-intent-classification-use-tokenization/4659>\
**Category:** Rasa Open Source\
**Created:** [January 25, 2019, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/how-does-rasa-nlu-intent-classification-use-tokenization/4659 "2019-01-25T16:07:46Z")\
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Rasa NLU has pre-built components for tokenization:

- [tokenizer\_whitespace](https://rasa.com/docs/nlu/components/#tokenizer-whitespace)
- [tokenizer\_jieba](https://rasa.com/docs/nlu/components/#tokenizer-jieba)
- [tokenizer\_mitie](https://rasa.com/docs/nlu/components/#tokenizer-mitie)
- [tokenizer\_spacy](https://rasa.com/docs/nlu/components/#tokenizer-spacy)