# Question about Tokenization for text classification
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**Author:**  [@afractalthought](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fafractalthought)%5C
**Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fquestion-about-tokenization-for-text-classification%2F775%2F1 "2020-08-19T17:40:45Z")
Can anyone answer [this question](https://datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/80523/am-i-tokenizing-correctly-for-text-classification-using-the-bert-hugging-face-l) I posted on stack exchange?
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**Author:**  [@thomwolf](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fthomwolf)%5C
**Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fquestion-about-tokenization-for-text-classification%2F775%2F2 "2020-08-19T20:07:33Z")
The padding should be on the right for Bert.
But you can do all of that a lot simpler now! You should take a look at the [preprocessing tutorial](https://huggingface.co/transformers/preprocessing.html).
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**Author:**  [@afractalthought](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fafractalthought)%5C
**Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fquestion-about-tokenization-for-text-classification%2F775%2F3 "2020-08-19T20:12:59Z")
Thank you for responding!