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: Perhaps he has an ideological ax to grind--after all, a few months back he proclaimed Marx the thinker of the future. Sentence 2: We are certainly no better off as a family now than we have ever been in the past. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Concludes the Globe : She's more than a perfect 10! Sentence 2: The Globe feels that she is more than a perfect 10 but her personality leaves a lot to be desired. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: because uh now i have the i i have the IBM PS two Sentence 2: That can also be made into a purse that can hold anything. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION:
N