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 Christopher Mays ? Christopher Mays  told the station Jordan was inside âenjoying  himself â for at least 30 minutes before police showed up.
â[There was] a 3-month-old boy whoâs not strapped in the car seat  upside down  [his] head is where itâs butt should be  feet up in the air â  Mays  said. âGod only knows how much longer an upside down infant has in a car seat.â
Meanwhile  the strip club staff and the concerned customer helped the 3-year-old unlock the car from the inside  freeing the kids   Mays  said.
âItâs devastatingâ¦itâs devastating that people can do that to childrenâ¦it really opens your eyes to what goes on in this world  how nasty things can be â  Mays  told WINK News.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Mark Ratzer ? Chicago will see a sunny and snowless Monday morning  but the entire metro area will be under a winter weather advisory from noon to midnight  according to  National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Ratzer .
Snow totals could be 2 to 6 inches  including possibly 1 to 3 inches during the heart of the evening rush hour   Ratzer  said. The Interstate 88 and Interstate 80 corridors are expected to take the brunt of the snowstorm  while the northern suburbs will receive less snowfall.
The next chance of snowfall won’t be until Tuesday evening to Wednesday morning  when much lighter amounts are forecast   Ratzer  said.
On Monday morning  temperatures are expected to hover near zero in Chicago  reaching the upper teens by the afternoon   Ratzer  said.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Samantha ? Speaking with Variety  Streisand said that the two Coton de Tulear dogs  named Miss Violet and Miss Scarlett  are actually clones of a dog that passed away last year  Samantha.
âThey have different personalities â Streisand told Variety. âIâm waiting for them to get older so I can see if they have her [ Samantha âs] brown eyes and seriousness.â
Before  Samantha  passed on  Babs had cells taken from the dog's mouth and stomach for replicating purposes.
Streisand  75  also has a third dog  Miss Fanny  who is a distant cousin of Samantha  making it one big happy family.

SOLUTION:
Positive