{"id":2013,"date":"2024-08-12T11:15:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/?p=2013"},"modified":"2024-08-12T11:15:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:15:11","slug":"stop-capitalizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/stop-capitalizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop capitalizing so much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the absolute scourges of student writing is the tendency to capitalize just about every multi-word noun phrase. The rule in English is pretty simple: you only capitalize proper names, and these are, roughly, the names of people, locations, or organizations. Technical concepts do not qualify. It doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s part of an acronym: we capitalize the acronym but not necessarily the full phrase.\u00a0<em>Natural language processing\u00a0<\/em>is not a proper name;\u00a0<em>cognitive science<\/em> isn&#8217;t either;\u00a0<em>logistic regression<\/em> certainly is not a proper name nor is\u00a0<em>conditional random fields\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0<em>hidden Markov model\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0<em>support vector machine<\/em> or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the absolute scourges of student writing is the tendency to capitalize just about every multi-word noun phrase. The rule in English is pretty simple: you only capitalize proper names, and these are, roughly, the names of people, locations, or organizations. Technical concepts do not qualify. It doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s part of an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/stop-capitalizing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stop capitalizing so much&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-presentation-of-self","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}