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 Rene Boucher ? Paul said  neighbor Rene Boucher  attacked  him  in November while  he  was mowing  his  lawn and wearing headphones.  The Kentucky senator  received six broken ribs and developed pneumonia from the incident  and has described the injuries as a âliving hell.â
 Boucher âs attorney  Matthew Baker  said the retired anesthesiologist shouldnât be jailed  and would pay Paul restitution for his injuries.
Boucher  58  has lived next to  the senator  for years in an upscale subdivision of Bowling Green. The two  though  have disagreed on lawn maintenance.
 Boucher  said  he  saw Paul stacking brush onto an existing pile  and on the day of the incident heâd had âenoughâ â and executed a ârunning tackleâ of Paul. Because  the senator  didnât see  Boucher  coming   he  didnât brace for the impact.
After the incident   Boucher  pleaded not guilty to fourth-degree assault charges.
No date has been set for  Boucher âs sentencing.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity George W Bush ? "Bush wanted to do the right thing by fulfilling this humanitarian impulse ," says Chow . 
In so doing , Chow contends , Bush paved the way for an era in which global health assistance has become a prominent new instrument of U.S. statecraft . 
By contrast , only a few Americans have ever heard of PEPFAR , the U.S. President 's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief , which President Bush announced in his State of the Union address in 2003 . 
The name might surprise you : it 's George W. Bush . 
That 's partly because the United States has done very little to publicize the success of PEPFAR , and partly because the Bush presidency was overshadowed by much more high-profile aspects of his foreign policy -LRB- such as the invasion of Iraq -RRB- . 
Indeed , Bush still enjoys high popularity ratings in Africa , where he 's widely regarded as one of the continent 's great benefactors . 
At the same time , I think it 's a tragedy that the foreign policy shortcomings of the Bush administration have conspired to obscure his most positive legacy -- not least because it saved so many lives , but because there 's so much that Americans and the rest of the world can learn from it . 
"Bush did more to stop AIDS and more to help Africa than any president before or since ," says New York Times correspondent Peter Baker , who 's writing a history of the Bush-Cheney White House that 's due to appear in October . 
If it were n't for Iraq , it would be one of the main things history would remember about Bush , and it still should be part of any accounting of his presidency ." 
In his 2003 speech , President Bush called upon Congress to sponsor an ambitious program to supply antiretroviral drugs and other treatments to HIV sufferers in Africa .

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Tyra Patterson ? WHIO-TV reports  Tyra Patterson   now 42  was freed Monday  Christmas Day.
 Patterson  was convicted in the 1994 murder and robbery of 15-year-old Michelle Lai. She was one of five people charged with killing Lai and robbing her sister and three other girls.
 Patterson  did not fire the shot that killed Lai  but under Ohio law accomplices can get the same punishment as killers.
Celebrity supporters of  her  innocence claims included documentary filmmaker Ken Burns  actress Alfre Woodard and “Mad Men” TV show creator Matthew Weiner.
 Patterson  was granted parole in October.  She  was being held at the Northeast Pre-Release Center in Cleveland.

SOLUTION:
Positive