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: Some participants, confused by the question, replied with slogans for both the front and back of the Littleton T-shirt. Sentence 2: I think we did pretty well snorting that cocaine. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: yeah so uh so you so then you're not a uh uh not a frequent movie goer either Sentence 2: The scenery remains second to none, even though the newer resorts lack traditional charm and the slopes are packed in winter. Genre: travel.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: well um the budget's an interesting issue uh particularly since i'm pretty much a libertarian and an anachro libertarian at that uh so i would basically say the way to fix the budget is to uh cut and eliminate taxes charge user fees for things that uh are absolutely necessary and to be allocated fairly that way and um i'd say ninety percent of the budget has no business being there Sentence 2: Most local governments have policies against corruption. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION:
N