TASK DEFINITION: Given a document and an entity the task is to select the author's sentiment towards the entity. Sentiments can be Positive, Neutral and Negative. Select Positive if the article expresses a positive view towards the given entity or praises its quality or skills. Select Neutral if the document expresses no clear view towards the entity or has equal amounts of positive and negative statements or expressing some fact/quote by someone else. Select Negative if the article expresses a negative view towards like harsh remarks, criticizing entities action/decision etc. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Anna Fifield ? On Sunday  a U.S. Marine stationed in Okinawa  Japan  drunkenly crashed his truck into another vehicle  killing the driver. NPR's Elise Hu talks with Anna Fifield  Tokyo Bureau Chief for The Washington Post about what the incident means for the American military presence in Okinawa.
The collision is the latest in a string of incidents over the years involving U.S. personnel on the island. They include helicopter crashes and the rape and murder of a local woman last year. Joining us now is  Anna Fifield   the Tokyo bureau chief for The Washington Post.
 ANNA FIFIELD : Hi  Elise.
HU: And we're sure you'll be keeping an eye on it.  Anna Fifield  is the Tokyo bureau chief for The Washington Post  and  she  joined us via Skype.
 FIFIELD : Thanks for having me  Elise.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity REUTERSPawel Kopczynski Group-IB ? The average amount of money stolen in each of 14 U.S. ATM heists was $500 000 per incident. Losses in Russia averaged $1.2 million per incident  but one bank there managed to catch the attack and return some of the stolen funds   Group-IB  said.
Hackers also stole documentation for OceanSystems’ Fed Link transfer system used by 200 banks in Latin America and the United States   it  said. In addition  they successfully attacked the Russian interbank messaging system known as AW CRB.
Once hackers penetrated targeted banks and financial organizations  they stole internal bank documentation in order to mount future ATM attacks   Group-IB  said. In Russia  the hackers continued to spy on bank networks after break-ins  while at least one U.S. bank had documents robbed twice   it  said.
 Group-IB  said  it  had notified Interpol and Europol in order to assist in law enforcement investigations.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Arjuna ? Activist investor Natasha Lamb  managing partner for  Arjuna Capital   is once again calling on Google to share information on if it pays women equally to men.
Lamb has reason to be curious.  Arjuna  has been attempting to work with Google's parent company Alphabet on this issue for a couple of years now.
 Arjuna  was willing to give  its  stamp of approval for that limited comparison  in the hopes that the company would eventually share an analysis of all of it. But then Alphabet changed its mind on cooperating  the board opposed the proposal and has been refusing to talk with her about the matter ever since  she says.
However  a Google spokesperson tells Business Insider that the company has actually done all that Lamb wanted and that its comparisons do include salary  bonuses and stock. "We've provided the number they [ Arjuna ] requested  just like some other companies have  and we've provided details of our methodology here. This analysis includes stock."
 Arjuna  has worked on shareholder proposals with seven other tech companies  all of which eventually agreed to release the asked-for gender pay comparison metrics: eBay  Intel  Apple  Amazon  Expedia  Microsoft and Adobe.
The only other company besides Google that refused her requests to share this data was Facebook  which has also spurned  Arjuna's shareholder proposal on the matter .
To be fair  shareholder proposals are almost always opposed by companies. If the board agrees with them  the company simply makes the asked-for change  and  the proposal  is dropped ahead of time. If the board opposes them  they virtually never pass.
In addition to pushing tech companies   Arjuna  has also been targeting the investment banking industry to release  its  gender pay data as well.

SOLUTION:
Positive