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 Jared Kushner ? Senior White House aide Jared Kushner -- who is President Donald Trump's son-in-law -- met this month with special counsel Robert Muellerâs investigators  Fox News has confirmed via a source with direct knowledge of the meeting.
Investigators questioned  Kushner  about a meeting  he  had with an unnamed Russian ambassador and former national security adviser Michael Flynn  the New York Times reported. The Associated Press also reported about the meeting  citing an anonymous source.
 Kushner 's questioning took about 90 minutes or less and was aimed in part on establishing whether  Kushner  had any information on Flynn that might be exculpatory  the AP source said.
The revelation of  Kushner âs meeting with Mueller investigators came days after it was reported that Flynn cut ties with Trumpâs legal team.
 Kushner  was previously accused by leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee of not being fully forthcoming in its Russia probe.
In response   Kushner 's lawyer Abbe Lowell said in a statement that his client encouraged members of the Trump campaign to decline meetings with foreigners.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity John Grisham ? CES is in full swing  and there is a particular buzz about the intersection of tech and healthcare through a very unexpected source in  best-selling author John Grisham (The Firm  The Client) .  Grisham  is applying  his  enviable skills to the powerful intersection of tech and healthcare and potentially about to turn it on its ear.
 Grisham  spoke from one of the CES stages about the growing public interest to  his  recent ebook  The Tumor which describes how a revolutionary  new medical technology called focused ultrasound could transform the treatment of serious medical disorders by curing with sound. The fictional story follows the plight of a young father who is diagnosed with a lethal brain tumor and begins a painful battle. Yet the treatment method and the tech behind it is not only very real but something which with  Grisham  is now deeply involved.  He  gave a candid interview about the scope of  his  work with this potentially game-changing move in healthcare  along with Dr. Neal Kassell  founder and chairman of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation (FUSF) and a former neurosurgeon who provided the medical and technical consulting for the book.
Prior to taking the stage at CES Grisham told me that Kassell approached  him  about being on the board of FUSF but that respectfully declined  several times. "Prior to my current involvement  I knew essentially nothing about the medical field. My usual focus is on legal matters and social injustice. So I was lukewarm  to say the least "  Grisham  said. However  as both  his  mother and  his  sister were diagnosed with cancerous tumors   he  began to see how the research that FUSF does could help millions of people facing the same diagnosis worldwide. FUSF's mission is to bring the technology that enables a lower cost method to destroy tumors with out-patient  ultrasound options and eradicate such terminal illness  where possible. Naturally  such continued research and development of this technology is expensive.
"So as I was on the board  I thought one of the best ways I could help would be to raise money "  Grisham  explained. FUSF has an annual operating budget of $10 million with 65% of that needed for research  itself. "We needed to raise awareness. Naturally  you do that through telling a story. I know how to do that." So  he  began to work with Kassell to write The Tumor with Kassell providing the deeply medical insights. After about a year  the book was ready and the Foundation it published. They decided to offer it for free and Jeff Bezos CEO of Amazon permitted them to distribute the book via the platform at this price point given its link to social good.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Eva Longoria ? After Gram-Moreno mistakenly let an interview with  Eva Longoria  slip through in which Longoria did exactly that   she  said   she  was fired and was replaced by a man.
âThey said  if thereâs any mention of [Sadler] in the pre-show  make sure you flag it â  she  told the Times  recalling  her  instructions. âYouâre censoring celebrities; itâs just not a good idea in my humble opinion. But it wasnât my decision.â
Sadler very publicly split with the network in December after  she  said  she  learned  her  male co-host âmade close to double my salary for the past several years â yet  she  had been denied a pay raise.
Hereâs the interview with  Longoria  that Gram-Moreno says led to her termination:
 Eva Longoria  brings up women equal pay and says "We stand with you Catt Sadler" to Ryan Seacrest and E!. Debra Messing also called out  E ! on the red carpet. #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/nzBVTI0WVz â Pop Crave (@PopCrave) January 8  2018
Debra Messing drags  E ! (while being interviewed on E!): "I was so shocked to hear that  E ! doesn't believing in paying their female co-hosts the same as their male co-hosts" pic.twitter.com/HF3B2uhwtF â David Mack (@davidmackau) January 7  2018
However  Gram-Morenoâs attorney  Katherine Atkinson  said  E ! never questioned her work.
âIn the 12 years Aileen has been working on red carpet shows for  E ! they never once raised a performance issue â Atkinson said in a statement. âThat is a convenient excuse for covering up attempts to silence women speaking out. Employers often attack women speaking out about discrimination â so I am disappointed in E! but not surprised.
âE! canât have it both ways. They support their position that they were not censoring references to Catt Sadler by pointing to  the Eva Longoria interview . But they fired my client for failing to censor  that very interview . If you attempt to censor  and then fire the person for not catching the speech you intended to censor for letting it go through  you canât then claim that you arenât so bad after all because you âletâ it air. Their argument defies logic.â
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article said that the interview with Debra Messing was the one that led to Gram-Morenoâs dismissal. The interview she cited in her complaint was the one with  Eva Longoria .

SOLUTION:
Positive