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: um it's horrible Sentence 2: I don't think anyone liked Margaret Thatcher or respected her. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Housing had always been scarce for Hong Kong's Chinese. Sentence 2: Benedetto Antelami carved two statues in the baptistery. Genre: travel.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: i would hope so i mean you've been together a little bit longer than we have Sentence 2: the two of you started dating about six months before we did Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION:
Y