TASK DEFINITION: Given a sentence and an entity, the task is to select the authors sentiment towards the enity. Sentiments can be Positive, Neutral and Negative. Select Positive if the sentence expresses a positive view towards the given entity or praises its quality or skills. Select Neutral if the sentence 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 sentence 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 Tiger Woods ?  By August his marriage was over  he had lost millions in endorsement deals and for the first time since he turned pro  Woods finished a season without a victory.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Mario Gabelli ?  Gabelli  says  he 's a buyer of General Electric shares after  their  recent pullback  based on  its  industrial business. GE shares are up 1.5 percent on Monday.  He  said  his  firm is just starting to buy.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Bill White ? Next thing. I wrote recently about answering a casting call for extras to portray hurricane refugees in a video for the Bill White gubernatorial campaign. I showed up and played along just to get an idea of what the experience would be like.

SOLUTION:
Negative