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: Ashoka's Empire Sentence 2: Control of guns is a favorable outlook for me. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Yet even after admitting all this, Dahmer's neighbors insisted there was nothing odd about him, that he joined in neighborhood barbecues, that he was like the average Joe. Sentence 2: Dahmer's neighbors didn't believe there was anything odd about him. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: And in my head, I started to swear. Sentence 2: I began to audibly swear, and it felt great to do it. Genre: fiction.

SOLUTION:
Y