MRPC Instructions

The New York University Center for Data Science is collecting your answers for use in research on computer understanding of English. Thank you for your help!

We will present you with two sentences taken from news articles. Your job is to figure out if these two sentences mean the same thing at a high level:

Choose same if the two sentences essentially mean the same thing. Examples:

“The decision to issue new guidance has been prompted by intelligence passed to Britain by the FBI in a secret briefing in late July .”

“Scotland Yard ‘s decision to issue new guidance has been prompted by new intelligence passed to Britain by the FBI in late July .”
Choose not same if the two sentences do not mean the same thing. Example:

“The company ‘s operating loss rose 59 percent to $ 73 million , from $ 46 million a year earlier .”

“Operating revenue fell 4.5 percent to $ 2.3 billion from a year earlier .”

You do not have to worry about whether the writing style is maintained across the two sentences.