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: We note, in particular, our support of the OIG's work to strengthen LSC recipients' compliance efforts and Case Service Reporting, which has resulted in increased accuracy in the documentation of the performance of LSC recipients. Sentence 2: LSC recipients do not have their performance documented.  Genre: government.

SOLUTION: Y

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: but i i guess things have gotten better i've been told that there's flex hour and those kind of things Sentence 2: It's gotten large, I believe it may be up to two hundred and fifty thousand. Genre: telephone.

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: A change would eliminate the current disparity in practice between the private sector and the government and would put federal employees on a par with their private-sector counterparts, including federal contractor personnel, in this area. Sentence 2: Edinburgh has its own style. Genre: government.

SOLUTION:
N

