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: Nevertheless, U.S. officials assert that the helicopters and Army soldiers are an expansion of the air operation, supporting the air campaign, and not a ground force. Sentence 2: The air operation is not a ground force. Genre: slate.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Oh, yes, I was trying to convert you and knowing I'd failed already. Sentence 2: Of course, I tried to bring you over to our side, even knowing that I had not succeeded. Genre: fiction.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: We intend to do more work on the implications of downsizing and of the government's human capital approach generally. Sentence 2: Improving product design reliability can be measured by tracking that metric for at least a year. Genre: government.

SOLUTION:
N