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Table 2

Notation of each variable and its corresponding meaning.

Category	Notation	Meaning
Attribute	a	An attribute value, e.g., the formal style
	a′	An attribute value different from a
	𝔸	A predefined set of attribute values
	a_i	The i-th attribute value in 𝔸

Sentence	x	A sentence with attribute value a
	x′	A sentence with attribute value a′
	X_i	A corpus of sentences with attribute value a_i
	x_i	A sentence from the corpus X_i
	$\hat{x^{'}}$	Attribute-transferred sentence of x learned by the model

Model	E	Encoder of a TST model
	G	Generator of a TST model
	f_c	Attribute classifier
	θ_E	Parameters of the encoder
	θ_G	Parameters of the generator
	θ_{f_c}	Parameters of the attribute classifier

Embedding	z	Latent representation of text, i.e., z $\overset{Δ}{=}$ E(x)
Embedding	a	Latent representation of the attribute value in text

Category	Notation	Meaning
Attribute	a	An attribute value, e.g., the formal style
	a′	An attribute value different from a
	𝔸	A predefined set of attribute values
	a_i	The i-th attribute value in 𝔸

Sentence	x	A sentence with attribute value a
	x′	A sentence with attribute value a′
	X_i	A corpus of sentences with attribute value a_i
	x_i	A sentence from the corpus X_i
	$\hat{x^{'}}$	Attribute-transferred sentence of x learned by the model

Model	E	Encoder of a TST model
	G	Generator of a TST model
	f_c	Attribute classifier
	θ_E	Parameters of the encoder
	θ_G	Parameters of the generator
	θ_{f_c}	Parameters of the attribute classifier

Embedding	z	Latent representation of text, i.e., z $\overset{Δ}{=}$ E(x)
Embedding	a	Latent representation of the attribute value in text