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: , the historical cost to build the Washington Monument). Sentence 2: The cost to build the Washington Monument in history. Genre: government.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: If funded, these projects would provide the potential for half of the states to provide clients with legal information and pro se resources on a statewide basis. Sentence 2: The CNN story said professionals deserve to be looked at closely when they are helping patients. Genre: government.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: The subject matter of written materials and of events (for example, legal education workshops is on issues of particular concern to our clients). Sentence 2: Legal education workshops are a top request. Genre: government.

SOLUTION:
Y

