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 Byun Jong-Rak ? Byun Jong-Rak was among the first people in Seoul to hear the news of the invasion. Police came at dawn on June 25 to the dyeing factory where he worked.
 "Leave the city! The North Koreans are coming " they told him.
 Jo's eldest brother was in the North Korean military and another brother served in South Korea's army. "My eldest brother told me to go to the South but I never saw him after that."
 Just before the end of the war  Jo heard from a cousin that herher eldest brother probably survived. To this day  she has had no news of him. The younger brother was killed.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Oscar Cortez ? Oscar Cortez   46  originally from El Salvador  is a plumber who has built an American life in the 17 years he has had temporary protected status. The U.S. government will terminate the program for an estimated 200 000 Salvadorans in this country  people with knowledge of the plan said Monday. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post)
 Oscar Cortez  feels like  he  has an ordinary American life.  He  carries a Costco card.  He  roots for the Boston Red Sox. And five days a week   he  rises before dawn  pulls on four shirts and two pairs of pants  and ventures into the frigid air to work as a plumber  a good job that pays for his Maryland townhouse and his daughtersâ college fund.
The U.S. government opened the door to this life in 2001 when it granted  Cortez  and about 200 000 other migrants from El Salvador Temporary Protected Status (TPS)  a provisional reprieve from deportation that has allowed them to work legally in the United States for 17 years.
At 15th and L streets NW in Washington   Cortez  saw the news on  his  mobile phone while taking a break from laying copper pipe at the construction site of the new Fannie Mae headquarters.
Many Salvadorans say they will try to stay in the United States illegally â a fate they find more bearable than facing the rampant gang violence in their homeland.  Cortez  said  he  visited  his  parents in 2016 for the first time since  he  left and was shocked to see that the house had six locks on every door to ward off burglars. People  he  knew had left or died. Strangers stared at  him  on the street.
âI felt like a foreigner in my own land â  he  said. âEveryone is looking at  you  like youâre from outer space.â
Both men said they are hoarding their savings in case they lose their jobs along with their protected status.  Cortez  has put off replacing  his  old Mitsubishi Montero  with 150 000 miles and a sputtering engine.
Like many TPS recipients  they say they will try to obtain legal residency.  His  wife is a legal resident  and  Cortez  hopes she will someday be able to sponsor  him . Contreras said he is trying to get a green card through his wife  a U.S. citizen. But there are no guarantees.
 Cortez  nodded. âWeâll lose our jobs â he said. âWeâll lose it all.â

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Michael Steele ? The camera pans across a bucolic river and a sunny cornfield  an American flag flapping in the breeze  as narrator Michael Steele extols the freedom to dream and achieve. Then  with the Statue of Liberty sweeping into the shot  comes a dire warning that freedom is fragile: Democrats  he says  are "experimenting with America."
The camera zooms in on a bespectacled Steele  who asks viewers for donations. "Our freedom " he says with a smile. "It's worth fighting for."
The television advertisement  which aired in selected markets last month  is vintage Steele _ affable  charismatic and seizing the spotlight. But the ad's star is not running for anything. He's the chairman of the Republican National Committee  with a mandate to promote his party rather than himself.
Steele has put a public face on what had been largely a behind-the-scenes job  hoping to foster what he has called a "hip-hop" Republican renaissance. That high profile has been accompanied by a record of lavish spending and a string of gaffes  leading some party activists to complain that Steele revels in the perks of the office while neglecting some of the onerous work necessary to reclaim majorities in the House and Senate. This narrative grew more damaging last week with the disclosure that RNC staffers approved a $1 900 bill at a Hollywood nightclub that features topless dancers mimicking lesbian sex acts while wearing bondage gear.
Still there have been no calls for Steele's ouster  and some top Republicans have calculated that there is no upside in forcing out the first black chairman of a party largely dominated by white Southerners _ especially not while the GOP is winning under his watch. Steele claimed credit for recent Republican victories in Massachusetts  Virginia and New Jersey  telling reporters in January: "I won two governorships and a host of special elections."
Some Republicans question Steele's contribution to the party's recent successes. Nevertheless  "To the victor go the spoils " said Ron Kaufman  a former RNC chairman who worked against Steele in the leadership race. "Is the party better off today than the day Michael Steele got elected? It's very hard to say no  on almost every level. ... The bottom line is the coach gets the credit. They're paid to win  and we're winning."
To understand how this one-term lieutenant governor from Maryland became his party's national chairman  go back to the day he was selected  Jan. 30  2009. It was one week after Obama's historic inauguration  and many in the Republican Party were demoralized and seeking new direction.
In a crowded field of candidates for the chairmanship  Steele stood out _ a 6-foot-4  dapper  television-friendly former politician who spoke eloquently of expanding the party's base to include more blacks and Latinos. He offered a break with history as the first African American chairman of what he referred to over and over again as the "party of Lincoln."
"The party has really wallowed in the sewers of racial politics in the country " said NAACP President Ben Jealous  a longtime Steele friend. "Mike Steele is their chance to get back on higher ground."
Steele was distrustful of the staff he inherited and the Beltway strategists who cycled through the committee. "When they drink that Potomac River water a while  it changes them  and Michael has tried never to drink that water " said John Kane  a close friend who ran the Maryland Republican Party when Steele was lieutenant governor.
So less than a week after his election  Steele asked each staffer to submit a resignation letter. They were told the chairman would decide who could stay  former aides recalled. He let dozens go.
In his early months  Steele  who had been a Fox News Channel commentator  gave several interviews that led to damaging blunders. On CNN  Steele dismissed Rush Limbaugh  a popular voice for the right  as an "entertainer" and said Limbaugh's radio talk show can be "incendiary" and "ugly." He told GQ magazine that abortion was "an individual choice " going against his party's antiabortion platform.
Meanwhile  he was making cosmetic changes to the party operation. Steele disliked the dark-wood furnishings in his office  telling GQ it was "way too male for me." So he had the RNC spend $18 500 on a new wooden desk  armchairs  a couch and art for the walls  according to aides.
When Steele hit the road to meet local volunteers and operatives  he often brought a photographer to document it all. At party headquarters in Washington  the hallways were decorated with jumbo-size pictures of Steele shaking hands.
Steele declined several requests for interviews for this story because he believes he has received unfair scrutiny from The Washington Post dating to his political career in Maryland  his spokesman Doug Heye said. "Profile after profile after profile by The Washington Post that almost borders on stalking " Heye said. "At a certain point you just stop taking it seriously."
This report is based on Steele's public comments and interviews with more than three dozen RNC members  donors  party strategists and state officials  as well as Steele's friends  political opponents and current and former aides. They portrayed a complex man who  like most people  is a combination of traits  not 100 percent an industrious political strategist or a feckless self-promoter.

SOLUTION:
Neutral