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 Mariah Carey ? Mariah Carey  undeterred by last yearâs performance  will take to the stage once again in Times Square to ring in the new year on live TV.
The star  along with Dick Clark Productions  issued a joint statement on Friday announcing  Carey  as the headliner for âDick Clarkâs New Yearâs Rockinâ Eve with Ryan Seacrestâ broadcast.
Careyâs manager blamed the production and technical difficulties that producers knowingly failed to fix. Dick Clark Productions called the accusations âoutrageous and frankly absurd.â  Carey  eventually broke her silence on the troubled performance  saying she was âmortifiedâ and that she intended to take a break from social media.
Now it seems as though everyone is ready to put the messy past behind them.  Carey  will join the likes of Britney Spears  Nick Jonas  Kelly Clarkson and Shawn Mendes as the world rings in 2018.
 Careyâs  forthcoming New Yearâs Eve performance will top an already merry holiday season for the star. In addition to performing her annual Christmas tour   Careyâs  famous single âAll I Want For Christmas Is Youâ has been played more than 100 million times this month alone  according to Forbes.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Thomas Edison ? A long-lost piece of electrical wire from  Thomas Edison’s  first underground cable for electric lighting is up for sale.
 Edison’s  own home in Menlo Park  a section of  Edison   New Jersey  was among the homes lit in the November 1880 electrical lighting test.
“Because of this test  Edison  was able to put lights up in New York; because of that   it  went worldwide ” he added.
The wire was saved by F.A. Wardlaw  a long-time  Edison  lab aide who was present on the night of the test. In 1933  Wardlaw dug up the wire and sent it to Paul Kruesi  the son of  Edison ’s chief machinist  who grew up with the inventor in Menlo Park. A handwritten note from Wardlaw is attached to the piece of electrical wire.
“Perhaps you would like a piece of the original conductor used by  Edison  at Menlo Park at the now historic demonstra­tion of the Edison System of Incandescent Electric Lighting in 1880  so am sending you one ” Wardlaw wrote in a Oct. 4  1933 letter accompanying the artifact and note. “I dug it out of the bank on the east side of Christie St  Menlo Park  directly opposite your old home  last Friday. It was the first underground cable ever used for electric lighting and appears pretty good yet after being buried for 53 years.”

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Anthony M. Kennedy ? As usual  for the past several years  the answers likely will come from  Justice Anthony M. Kennedy   the 81-year old Reagan appointee who regularly holds the deciding vote when the rest of the court is evenly split along ideological lines.
All eyes will be on  Kennedy  even more than normal as this yearâs term could be  his  last.  The justice  has turned away questions about  his  plans  but Republicans on Capitol Hill predict  Kennedy  will retire soon  although  of course  they predicted the same thing last year. If  Kennedy  does step down  President Trump could replace  him  with a younger  more reliable conservative and tilt the court decidedly to the right.
For now  however  lawyers in the biggest cases will focus on how to win over  Kennedy . That explains why the gay rights laws in the blue states and the partisan election maps in the red states are both being challenged as threats to the 1st Amendmentâs guarantee of freedom of speech.
 Kennedy  has been the courtâs leader in striking down laws that discriminated against gays and lesbians  but  he  also has been a steady champion of free speech. Religious rights advocates insist that religious freedom is in danger in this country  but in court  they rely mostly on the 1st Amendment principle that the government cannot force someone to speak its message.
Their argument  like the one in the bakerâs case  is aimed at  Kennedy . The last time the high court considered political gerrymandering â and decided not to act  â Kennedy  wrote that the court might be more open to a future appeal based on free-speech principles.
âThe 1st Amendment may be the more relevant constitutional provision in future cases â  he  wrote in that 2004 case  noting that states arguably were âpenalizing citizens because â¦ of their association with a political party or their expression of political views.â

SOLUTION:
Positive