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 Al Thomas ? Police Chief Al Thomas â retirement was effective immediately  the city said in a statement. The University of Virginia is located in Charlottesville.
âNothing in my career has brought me more pride than serving as the police chief for the City of Charlottesville â  Thomas  said in the statement  without providing a reason for his departure.
FILE PHOTO:  Charlottesville Chief of Police Al Thomas  (L) and Charlottesville City Manager Maurice Jones listen to speakers during a public forum hosted by the Department of Justice Community Relations Service after a rally by far-right demonstrators led to the death of a counter protester in Charlottesville  Virginia  U.S.  August 27  2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Heaphyâs report on the violence said  Thomas  sought to limit information requested by an investigation team and deleted text messages relevant to the review.  Thomas  denied efforts to hide information  the report added.
Charlottesville City Manager Maurice Jones on Monday called  Thomas  âa man of integrityâ and said the city will appoint an interim police chief within the next week.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Kerry Emanuel ? There are other factors at work besides warming. A global weather pattern called El Niño was absent this year  and that often means a stormier Atlantic Ocean. One reason is that high-altitude "shear winds" in the Atlantic that often nip the tops off budding hurricanes were absent  as well. 
Atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel at MIT  notes that there's also a rather mysterious cycle for Atlantic hurricanes. It seems to repeat about every decade. "We don't really understand it  [but] it's there "  he  says  and it also influences when and how often hurricanes arise. Sure enough  it was 12 years ago  in 2005  when the Atlantic saw such a similarly huge hurricane year.
 Emanuel  says scientists aren't clear whether hurricanes are becoming more common; reliable records for hurricanes go back only about 50 years in the Atlantic  so it's difficult to detect a long-term trend  and data for the Pacific are even scarcer. Theoretically   he  says  some aspects of warming could actually decrease the frequency of hurricanes by drying out parts of the atmosphere. But those that do arise are likely to be nastier. "Insofar as the storms are intense and produce a lot of rain "  he  says  "they're a window into our long-term future."
And it's a costly future   Emanuel  says. "We're just going to get more and more destruction "  he  predicts  "because we just encourage people to live and build in dangerous places" like low-lying coastlines — a fact independent of climate change.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Hun Sen ? The ruling party of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen claimed a sweeping win in Sunday's elections for the country's Senate  a victory that it assured itself by eliminating any serious opposition from the contest.
Sunday's vote was seen as a foretaste of a scheduled July general election for the National Assembly that is also expected to affirm  Hun Sen's  rule.
 Hun Sen  has been in power for three decades  and while maintaining a framework of democracy  tolerates little opposition.  His  grip seemed shaken by 2013's general election  when the Cambodia National Rescue Party mounted a strong challenge  winning 55 seats in the National Assembly and leaving  Hun Sen 's party with 68.
After last year's commune council elections   Hun Sen's  ruling party then stepped up  its  steady offensive against critics and opponents. Media outlets seen as critical of the government were forced to shut down  and most senior members of the Cambodia National Rescue Party fled the country.

SOLUTION:
Positive