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 elegant Georgian building has several rooms furnished in the 18th-century style; on display are a number of articles that belonged to Wordsworth himself. Sentence 2: I don't think that is a problem here in Dallas.   Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: John left me, and a few minutes later I saw him from my window walking slowly across the grass arm in arm with Cynthia Murdoch.  Sentence 2: What days will early voting be in effect for the election? Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Cochran pontificated windily for the camera. Sentence 2: The horse was angry. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION:
N