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 agency representatives also said that they were not aware of any data suggesting that the lack of a standardized approach to regulatory participation was a problem to either the public in general or to the regulated entities that are most likely to participate in rulemaking. Sentence 2: The square of Machico's has the first circular form in the world. Genre: government.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Hispanic Americans comprise the largest ethnic group of all, with numbers fast approaching 40 percent of the population. Sentence 2: Drew rounded one end of the wagon. Genre: travel.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Neil Howe, a historian and economist, is a senior advisor for the Concord Coalition. Sentence 2: Congress adopted a certification provision. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION:
N