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 Uma Thurman ? Actress  Uma Thurman  finally broke  her  silence amid the ongoing #MeToo movement and accused disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault.
 Thurman  opened up to The New York Times in an article published Saturday which followed a viral Access Hollywood video from October 2017 that captured  her  telling reporters  she  would open up about  her  experiences with Weinstein when  she  was ready. The two worked together in âPulp Fictionâ and âKill Bill.â
 She  had remained mum on Weinstein following the bombshell exposes that revealed decades of alleged sexual abuse from the disgraced producer toward dozens of actresses.
 Thurman  said  she  became friendly with Weinsteinâs first wife  Eve  when she starred in âPulp Fictionâ and  she  knew him pretty well before âhe attacked.â  She  recalled a strange encounter with the famed producer in Paris.  She  said they were fighting over a script when he changed into a bathrobe.
âI didnât feel threatened â  Thurman  recalled. âI thought he was being super idiosyncratic  like this was your kooky  eccentric uncle.â
However  he then told  her  to follow him into a steam room.
âI was standing there in my full black leather outfit â boots  pants  jacket â  she  said. âAnd I was so hot and I said  âThis is ridiculous  what are you doing?â And he was getting very flustered and mad and he jumped up and ran out.â
âIt was such a bat to the head. He pushed me down. He tried to shove himself on me. He tried to expose himself. He did all kinds of unpleasant things. But he didnât actually put his back into it and force me â  she  recalled. âYouâre like an animal wriggling away  like a lizard. I was doing anything I could to get the train back on the track. My track. Not his track.â
Thurman said  she  received roses the next day from Weinstein telling  her   she  had âgreat instincts.â Following the assault  Weinsteinâs representatives called Thurman about upcoming projects.
However   she  wanted to confront Weinstein following the assault.  She  went to his hotel room and told Weinstein  âIf you do what you did to me to other people you will lose your career  your reputation and your family  I promise you.â
The actressâ friend  makeup artist Illona Herman  told the Times  she  had been at the London hotel waiting for Thurman to come down from meeting with Weinstein.  She  called that  her  friend looked frazzled.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Rand Paul ? The Senate passed a sweeping bipartisan spending bill Friday morning  but not before the federal government shut down when Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) delayed the vote past midnight to complain about the budget deficit. It was the second government shutdown in less than three weeks.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Feb. 8 spoke on the Senate floor against a bipartisan budget deal and delayed a vote on the measure. (U.S. Senate)
Then  as an expected vote approached in the Senate   Paul  began to throw up roadblocks  demanding a vote on  his  amendment that would demonstrate how the two-year budget deal breaks past pledges to rein in federal spending.
GOP leaders refused to allow  him  to offer the amendment  arguing that if  Paul  got an amendment vote  many other senators might want one  too.  Paul   in turn  refused to allow the vote to go forward  making use of Senate rules that allow individual senators to slow down proceedings that require the consent of all.
“I can’t in all good honesty  in all good faith  just look the other way because my party is now complicit in the deficits ”  Paul  said on the Senate floor as evening pushed into night.
 Paul  objected after a visibly irritated McConnell tried to move to a vote. Then  Paul  launched into a lengthy floor speech deriding bipartisan complicity on deficit spending while the country goes “on and on and on  finding new wars to fight that make no sense.” The senator direly predicted a “day of reckoning ” possibly in the form of the collapse of the stock market.
As the hours ticked on   Paul  repeatedly refused to consent to allowing the vote to happen  as lawmakers and aides of both parties grew increasingly annoyed at  him . Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.)  leaving the floor after an unsuccessful attempt to curtail  Paul ’s standoff  called the gambit “grossly irresponsible” and said that leaders would not entertain  his  demand for a vote.
Senators of both parties were left fuming  with most of their ire directed toward  Paul .
“ He  has mastered the art of ticking off  his  colleagues ” said Sen. Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.).
“It’s a colossal waste of everybody’s time ” said Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.). Of  Paul   Thune said  “He never gets a result.”
 Paul himself  made no apologies as  he  delivered one floor speech after another  casting  himself  as a lone defender of fiscal austerity  despite having voted in December for a tax bill that added at least $1 trillion to the debt.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Anthony Guglielmi ? The 32-year-old Wisconsin man was not a threat to Sundayâs Chicago Marathon  and it was believed he was in town to drop off a friend at OâHare International Airport  said  chief Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi .
Around 8 a.m.  Chicago police assigned to O'Hare stopped a vehicle for speeding near the Kennedy Expressway on Cumberland Avenue   Guglielmi  said.
Once police pulled them over  an officer saw a handgun in the 2005 Mitsubishi Galant. Police were then told that an AR-15 rifle was in the trunk   Guglielmi  said.
In addition to 217 rounds of ammunition  police found a pressure cooker device in the trunk of the car. But it was inspected by Chicago police and the FBI  who determined that the device was not being used as a weapon  but rather for cooking   Guglielmi  said.
Three people were inside the vehicle  and all were taken into custody   Guglielmi  said.
"Runners and spectators in Sunday's marathon "can expect to see a very visible presence of Chicago police officers ''  Guglielmi  said in an emailed statement.

SOLUTION:
Neutral