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: US EPA, Office of Air and Radiation and Office of Policy. Sentence 2: The EPA has no office of policy. Genre: government.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: As a visitor, you can admire the inlaid stone panels of birds and flowers at the back of the hall. Sentence 2: There is much partisan debate over the political ideology of PBS. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Intellectual property refers, basically, to nontangible creative product and, like a rising sea, it seems to cover new territory with every passing year. Sentence 2: I'm trying to get thin because of a sport I wanna practice. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION:
N