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 Rex Tillerson ? BRUSSELS/BERLIN (Reuters) - On the eve of his trip to Europe  Rex Tillerson gave a speech last week that European allies had waited months to hear: an âironcladâ promise of U.S. support to its oldest allies.
 U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson  participates in a panel discussion after  his  remarks on U.S.-European Relations at the Wilson Center in Washington  U.S.  November 28  2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
The question is whether European officials believe him  given tensions during his April visit to Europe  when Reuters reported  Tillerson  initially planned to skip a NATO meeting in Brussels and then only attended under pressure from allies.
âIf there were expectations that  Tillerson  might evolve into a counterweight to Trump  someone who could pass on messages from partners and exert moderating influence over American foreign policy â those expectations have been disappointed â said Niels Annen  foreign policy spokesman for Germanyâs Social Democrats in parliament.
The French have gone around  Tillerson  to develop contacts with U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis  White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly  while the EUâs top diplomat Federica Mogherini has gone directly to Vice President Mike Pence.
One European diplomat said  Tillerson  was in a difficult position from the outset because the Trump administration was hostile to Iran and brought in a team of generals who took a hard line  âso it never left  Tillerson  much room.â

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Trent Franks ? Arizona Rep. Trent Franks resigned effective immediately Friday afternoon amid damning reports that he made unwanted sexual advances toward female staffers and offered at least one of them millions of dollars to carry a surrogate baby for him and his wife.
 GOP Rep. Trent Franks  resigns amid 'inappropriate behavior' claim
A few hours later  Politico reported that  Franks  had not just approached  his  female staffers about surrogacy — but also seemingly proposed sexual intercourse as a means to impregnate them.
The women said they decided to file complaints with the House Ethics Committee because they were concerned  Franks  was asking about sex  not artificial insemination.
GOP sources aware of the complaints said one of the women claimed she was retaliated against after rebuffing  Franks ' lewd proposal  having her previous access to the congressman revoked.
Also Friday  the Associated Press reported that  Franks  had offered one of the women a whopping $5 million to act as a surrogate for  him  and  his  wife. The woman claimed  Franks  pressed her repeatedly about surrogacy after she initially rebuffed  him .
In addition to talks of surrogacy   Franks  tried to convince a female aide that they were in love after sending her an article describing how two people know they love each other  according to the Politico report.
 Franks'  abrupt resignation comes as Washington  D.C.  reels from a sexual harassment scandal involving dozens of male politicians. Just hours before  Franks  initially announced  his  resignation  Democratic Sen. Al Franken stepped down in response to shocking claims that he sexually harassed a number of women. A few days before that  Franks’ Democratic House colleague John Conyers announced his resignation amid a sexual harassment scandal of his own.
 Franks  forcefully denied ever engaging in sexual misconduct in a lengthy statement on Thursday.
House Speaker Paul Ryan accepted Franks’ resignation on Friday. The House ethics investigation into the shocking claims against  Franks  has thereby been called off  the committee said.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Ayyoub ? Consider the case of  Rita Habib Ayyoub  a 30-year-old Iraqi Christian woman .
 Ayyoub  is one of hundreds  possibly thousands  of Christians and several thousand Yazidis captured in Iraqâs Nineveh province.  She  was forced to become a Muslim and a sex slave. Iraqi lawyers documented 68 Christians still in ISIS captivity in August.
 Ayyoub  told journalists that  she  was taken to a slave market in Mosul and sold  along with three Christian children  to ISIS âemirs.â A local Sunni man bought her and a 14- year old Yazidi girl. âHe raped the both of us over and over again â  she  says.
 Ayyoub  says  she  was later resold in Raqqa to another jihadi who had a Moroccan wife.  Ayyoub  relates  her  horrific ordeal in that family: âI was beaten and tortured by  her  (the jihadiâs wife) every day.  She  would not give up until I was bleeding  from my head  for example. They made me read the Quran and threatened to kill me if I did not convert to Islam.â
 Ayyoub  was rescued by Syrian Democratic Forces in November and is now being aided in Syria by a small womenâs group of Assyrians (a traditionally Christian ethnicity) â  not by the U.N.
Assyrian Swedish journalist Nuro Kino  who is helping Ayyoub   tells me that  she  does not know where to go next.  Ayyoubâs  hometown of Qaraqosh   Iraqâs  largest Christian city  stands mostly empty.
Conceivably   Ayyoub  could end up in the Erbil Catholic Chaldean Archdioceseâs displacement center  which shelters most displaced Iraqi Christians and has not had U.N. support.
But while  Ayyoub  may not be able to access U.N. aid  her ISIS tormentors can  thanks in part to generous U.S.-taxpayer-supported U.N. âstabilizationâ aid.
Though  Ayyoubâs enslaver  is likely dead   his  radicalized Moroccan wife might also qualify for U.N. resettlement help in Telkayf. That Nineveh town was Christian until the U.N. decided to move in the families of ISIS jihadis killed in battle and  thus  effectively bar its Christiansâ return.

SOLUTION:
Neutral