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: We also compared U.S. national saving to the saving of other major industrialized nations. Sentence 2: The US saving was compared to nations that weren't industrialized. Genre: government.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Obituaries recalled his career as a hard rock drummer (he was better known as Cozy) and did not mention the retired U.S. general who bears the same name. Sentence 2: It was the birthplace of Homer, said by Sappho to be the thirtieth muse. Genre: travel.

SOLUTION:
N