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: But in the meantime what was I to do?  Sentence 2: I wasn't sure how to proceed for the time being. Genre: fiction.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Undaunted, Chatterbox marched off to a nearby bookstore and purchased What the Face  Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) , edited by Ekman and Erika Rosenberg. Sentence 2: Chatterbox has never bought a book. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: He suggested that the technical aspects of screening were not as fruitful topics for research as how to screen the greatest number of patients at the lowest cost. Sentence 2: There was a disagreement in the group. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION:
N