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 Safe Medical Devices Act of 1990 (Pub. Sentence 2: The safe medical devices act was it enacted in 1992. Genre: government.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: On the south side of the plaza, with its entrance around the other side, is Iglesia de San Andr??s (Church of St. Anthony's), now splendidly restored after a decade of work. Sentence 2: Other studies claim these activities consume 80% of the financial resources  Genre: travel.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: uh-huh well sometimes too when we take out our garbage and we usually you know we just dump it in the middle of the garden you know after your garden's basically done Sentence 2: The issue really stems from the General public's lack of interest. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION:
N