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: Innuendos 97: Fox News' Brit Hume claimed on Fox News Sunday that the word around town has it that the Department of Justice--which has failed to nail even one of the million Democrats guilty of campaign-finance violations--is aggressively pursuing its investigation of former Republican National Committee chief Haley Barbour. Sentence 2: The WP points out that the scandal has been good media business. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: So let me assure you that this is in no way intended to deter any proceedings under way in the House of Representatives, no matter how idiotic. Sentence 2: There are proceedings in the House of Representatives every hour. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: From the eastern end of Princes Street, the eye is drawn to a hill topped with a series of interesting albeit disparate buildings. Sentence 2: The hill is covered in buildings. Genre: travel.

SOLUTION:
Y