Writing conventions

Spelling

American spelling
Some specific words with the chosen spelling
- ad hoc
- behavior
- crowdsourcing is a single word, but crowd worker is two words
- dataset
- dialogue
- judgment
- labeling
- learning-to-rank
- modeling
- normalization
- use-case
- semi-structured
- state of the art (noun) vs. state-of-the-art (adj)
- therefore

Capitalization and abbreviations

Section/subsection headings in Title Case: Like This and This.
Capitalization of certain words:
- information retrieval, natural language processing
- language modeling
- intranet
- web page, web site, web search, BUT, World Wide Web, Web 2.0
Chapter, section, table and figure references are always capitalized: Chapter X, Section X, Table X, Figure X.Y, BUT this chapter, this section.
Cross-references should be written in full when they stand at the beginning of a sentence (Chapter X, Section X, Figure X, etc.), otherwise abbreviated: Chap./Chaps., Sect./Sects., Fig./Figs., p./pp., Eq./Eqs.
a.k.a. (and not aka)

Punctuation and spacing

Use the serial comma; e.g., one, two, and three I want no ifs, ands, or buts
If a quote is followed by a dot or comma, the dot or comma should be put inside the quote
- 'one example'. => 'one example.'
Footnotes should immediately follow the punctuation (no space between).
- This is a sentence.\footnote{...}
Always put a comma after e.g. and i.e. E.g., In this case, e.g., ...
Never start a sentence with i.e., or e.g., but write out That is, and For example,.