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 Warren Buffett ? Warren Buffett  and Bill Gates have both founded highly profitable companies  so it's safe to say that  they 've made quite a few smart business decisions. In a 1998 panel discussion with students at the University of Washington's business school  the two billionaires pinpointed the best business decisions they ever made.
 Buffett  said  his  best business decision was simply starting a career in investing because  he  enjoys what  he  does. Luckily  said  Buffett   this has worked out well for  him .
"You'll see plenty of times when you get chances to do things that just shout at you "  he  said. "When that happens  you have to take a big swing."
Alluding to  his  own experiences as an investor   Buffett  said that when these opportunities arise  you must act quickly. There's no time to be "reading a book on the theory of diversification "  he  said.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Channing Tatum ? Story highlights  Channing Tatum  announced on social media that  he  will be pulling a film project that was in the works with The Weinstein Company
Tatum was set to make  his  directorial debut based on the book "Forgive Me  Leonard Peacock " by Matthew Quick
(CNN)  Channing Tatum  is stepping down from a film project  he  had in development with The Weinstein Company.
 The actor  was set to make  his  directorial debut alongside Reid Carolin in "Forgive Me  Leonard Peacock " based on the book by Matthew Quick.
 Tatum  made the announcement Wednesday on  his  social media accounts.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Jonathan Swift ? Jonathan Swift  we need you more than ever.
This week marks the 350th birthday of the brilliant Irish writer  born Nov. 30  1667. That we know of  Swift  at all is one of the sweetest fortunes of literary history.  His  father died of syphilis before Jonathan was born. A wet nurse whisked him to England for three years. He depended on the generosity of an uncle. He was almost killed by a mail bomb. But despite those precarious turns   Swift  became a poet  a priest  a political operator and  of course  the greatest satirist in the English language.
The longevity of  Swift ’s work is a testament to its potency because no genre fades as quickly: Satires are the cut flowers of literature. Time wilts their wit  fading their bright colors like old political cartoons that poke fun at fat cats we no longer recognize. (Voltaire adored Samuel Butler’s 1663 mock heroic poem “Hudibras ” but try reading it now without footnotes.)
[Jonathan Swift: Not (entirely) the misanthrope you thought you knew]
W.B. Yeats knew what he was talking about when he said of  Swift   “Imitate him if you dare.”
Consider the remarkable persistence of “A Modest Proposal ” published anonymously in 1729.  Swift ’s ironic phrase is such a hardy part of our language that it’s easy to forget how unlikely it is that we’d still be referring to a 3 000-word political pamphlet almost 300 years later. Originally titled “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country  and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public ” the essay burns with rage at a privileged class willing to ignore and rationalize human suffering. Although the plight of starving Irishmen may be unimaginable to us today  the centuries have done nothing to mute  Swift ’s savage indignation.  He  still sounds as timely as last night’s “Daily Show.”
If you haven’t read “A Modest Proposal” since high school  look it up again and be astounded. Speaking in the voice of a perfectly reasonable bureaucrat   Swift  begins by describing the piteous state of beggars and their children “all in rags  and importuning every passenger for an alms.” In response to this “deplorable state ”  he  announces a solution  “having no other motive than the publick good of my country  by advancing our trade  providing for infants  relieving the poor  and giving some pleasure to the rich”:
Much of Swift’s essay is taken up with various statistics and logistical explanations  a hellacious spreadsheet of infant flesh to lay out the case for utilizing 100 000 children nursed to approximately 28 pounds each. In those well-modulated sentences   Swift  washes individuals and their pain away. As John Stubbs writes in his recent biography   Swift  possessed an “unequalled capacity to endow a ludicrous line of argument with an air of steadfast reason.” The bloody solution of “A Modest Proposal” is easy to laugh off as a bit of grotesque hyperbole  but the real horror of the essay remains its bland  bureaucratic tone — the same sterile language of accounting that justified American slavery  the Holocaust or any scheme that slices human lives into the columns of a ledger.
If politicians haven’t changed their menu much in 300 years  the rest of us still face the same risk of indigestion. Remember that “Gulliver’s Travels” ends with the intrepid narrator isolated and disgusted. Orwell assumed that Gulliver reflected his creator’s morose character and claimed that  Swift  suffered from a “general hatred of humanity” stoked by a perverse obsession with mankind’s sins and weaknesses. Stubbs argues that the image of  Swift  as a “misanthropic monster” is not entirely fair  but Gulliver’s fate is instructive  nonetheless.
Now that we’re all strident critics trading the day’s outrages across Twitter and the dining room table  how are we to avoid being sickened by our own bitter indignation? The bile in a satirist’s mind must be balanced with hope  or the whole enterprise is doomed. Surely   Swift  wouldn’t have bothered to poke fun at cruelty  incompetence and hypocrisy unless  he  believed  on some level  that such scalding exposure could awaken a better nature.
On  his  350th birthday  it’s good to remember that despair is the satirist’s temptation and the citizen’s poison.

SOLUTION:
Positive