Classification of Facemarks Using N-gram

In this paper, we present an approach for the classification of facemarks into some facial expression categories. Facemarks are some of the expressions that are often used in text-based communication. Facemarks express human facial expression or action and they help us to understand what writers imply. However, there are some problems in the proccessing of the facemarks with computer; facemarks are numerous and users make new facemarks. Therefore, we propose to use the characters in facemarks to classify them. Though the facemarks are various, only some of signs and letters are used for the characters that compose the them. Moreover, there is a feature of the expressions of facemarks in the characters. We present an approach for facemarks classification using N-gram and evaluate this method.