TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you're given two sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2, and the genre they belong to. Your job is to determine if the two sentences belong to the same genre or not. Indicate your answer with Y and N respectively. Genres available include: face-to-face, government, letters, 9/11, slate, telephone, travel, verbatim, oup, fiction. Sentences belonging to 'face-to-face' genres relate to conversations or dialogues, 'government' encompasses information released from public government websites, 'letters' refers to any written work for philanthropic fundraising, '9/11' relates to information pertaining to the 9/11 attacks, 'oup' includes non-fiction works on the textile industry and child development, 'slate' refers to any cultural topic that appears in the slate magazine, 'telephone' includes telephonic dialogue, 'travel' deals with information in travel guides, 'verbatim' includes short posts regarding linguistics, and 'fiction' includes popular works of fiction like 'The Secret Adversary' etc.
PROBLEM: Sentence 1: The famed marketplace of Cairo Khan El-Khalili still buzzes with the atmosphere of a medieval souk and it makes a good place to start your tour, though do return as the sun drops and the lights come on because the atmosphere is palpable. Sentence 2: It's Monday, which newspaper is that? Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: The perverse irony of the nuclear age is that the survival of humankind has rested as much on international perception as on reality. Sentence 2: Ca'daan was exhausted by his fifth day of traveling. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: The bouts commence in the morning, but the real crowds start arriving only in late afternoon. Sentence 2: Samna is much better than WordPerfect, but I have to switch anyway. Genre: travel.

SOLUTION:
N