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 Hillary Clinton ? Days after at least 58 people were killed in a Las Vegas mass shooting   Hillary Clinton  called for better gun control.
âI canât believe that one whole political party in the greatest country on earth is totally sold to the gun lobby â  she  told host Jimmy Fallon.
 Clinton   on  her  book tour for âWhat Happened â called  her  memoir âa story of resilience.â
âIt is my best effort to pull the curtain back  invite people in to see what happened from my perspective and to talk about the things that I didnât get right and what was happening at the same time â  she  said of the book.
As for election night   Clinton  said  she  was disappointed both that  she  lost and that President Trump won.
âI was so worried about what it meant to have my opponent win â  she  told Fallon.
 Clinton  also had some words for President Trump  particularly of  his  handling of Hurricane Maria and the devastation in Puerto Rico.
âAs Miley would say  we canât stop and we wonât stop â the former presidential candidate wrote in a thank you note to  her  fans. (NBC/Andrew Lipovsky/NBC)
âItâs hard to figure out what are the priorities â  she  said.
Fallon also had female staff writers write thank you notes to  Clinton .
âThank you  Miley  tonightâs show writers and all of the women and young girls out there who are smart  strong and deserving of every opportunity â  Clinton  said.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Rachel Maddow ? MSNBC star Rachel Maddowâs latest anti-Trump conspiracy theory was so outlandish that even the dependably liberal HuffPost criticized it as "so flimsy that it could be debunked by a quick glance at a map."
On Thursday evening  "The Rachel Maddow Show" opened with a somber 25-minute diatribe that attempted to connect the tragic ambush attack that killed four American soldiers in Niger to the latest version of President Trumpâs proposed travel ban  which included the nation of Chad.  Maddow  essentially claimed that the inclusion of Chad  which recently pulled  its  troops out of Niger  in the revised travel ban resulted in extremist attacks such as the one that left four Americans dead.
The HuffPost  which is so anti-Trump that it refused to even cover him in the political section during the early stages of his campaign  published a story headlined  "What the hell was this  Rachel Maddow  segment?" The MSNBC host proclaimed that Chadâs pullout from Niger "had an immediate effect in emboldening ISIS attacks " but the HuffPost easily shot down her theory.
Colby College Department of Government assistant professor Laura Seay told the HuffPost that "any expert" would have said  Maddow 's conspiracy theory was "crazy" and the pullout of Chadian troops isnât necessarily related to the Trumpâs travel ban.
"Everybody that I know is appalled by this. I would like to think that  Maddow 's researchers are more responsible " Seay told the HuffPost.
"The Rachel Maddow Show" declined to comment to HuffPost but the host addressed the situation on Friday nightâs episode.
"Over the course of the day today  lots of people have been very upset with me for reporting that last night  which is fine. I didnât know you cared. But the upset over my reporting doesnât mean that anything I reported wasnât true "  Maddow  said. "Everything I reported was true."
 Maddow  continued: "Now  this doesnât mean that Chad withdrawing their troops was necessarily the cause of what happened to those U.S. troops who were ambushed. That ambush is being described by the Pentagon as a shock."
The HuffPostâs Willa Frej wrote that  Maddow  built "myths" using unrelated or unreliable information and "reduced the story so thoroughly that it lost any semblance of the larger truth."
 Maddow  has seen increased viewership as the triggered left tunes in to watch  her  condemn Trump on a nightly basis  butit seems the MSNBC host this time went too far for one of the most liberal publications in America.

SOLUTION: Negative

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Richard Burr ? The planned news conference from Sens. Richard Burr  R-N.C.  and Mark Warner  D-Va.  has been billed as a forum for the two panel leaders to give the public an interim status update on the committee's long-running investigation of allegations that Russia attempted to meddle in the 2016 U.S. elections  and that members of the Trump campaign may have colluded with Kremlin officials to improve their chance of victory. It is one of only a handful of public events the Senate Intelligence Committee has held in the nine months since commencing its probe.
In the course of that investigation  committee members and staff investigators have interviewed several members of the intelligence community and Trump's inner circle  mostly behind closed doors - including former campaign chief Paul Manafort and current senior adviser Jared Kushner  who is also President Donald Trump's son-in-law. They have also spoken with senior executives of social media companies like Facebook and Twitter  which carried many of the Russian-backed ads and falsified accounts that tried to exploit popular divisions in the run-up to the election. The committee is expected to continue those conversations in a public hearing with the tech giants early next month;  Burr  and Warner may share additional information about the social media-focused part of their probe on Wednesday.
The intelligence committee has had unprecedented access to classified files during the course of this investigation  and has spent significantly longer vetting the intelligence community's report than officials took to write it. Though  Burr  has set an aspirational deadline of wrapping up its probe by the end of the year   he  and Warner are not expected to release an interim report on Wednesday  according to sources familiar with their plans.
 Burr   Warner  and the spy chiefs they have called to testify before their panel in occasional public hearings have stressed that the 2016 election likely only emboldened Russia's resolve to meddle in future American elections  using similar tactics. Though 2018 is not a presidential election year  it could prove to be a pivotal contest for Congress - and the primary season begins in March  less than six months away.

SOLUTION:
Positive