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: oh okay does that last through the summer too Sentence 2: The model neglects to detail the information technology acquisition process. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: The brill trader told them of the amazing site as they continued their ride. Sentence 2: The brill trader was talking about the disgusting site.  Genre: fiction.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Together with the Palazzo dei Priori, the cathedral sustained some damage from Umbria's 1997 earthquake. Sentence 2: Wallace never used sarcasm and never used irony either. Genre: travel.

SOLUTION:
N