TASK DEFINITION: Given a sentence and an entity, the task is to select the authors sentiment towards the enity. Sentiments can be Positive, Neutral and Negative. Select Positive if the sentence expresses a positive view towards the given entity or praises its quality or skills. Select Neutral if the sentence 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 sentence 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 Jennifer Lawrence ? Though the actress has never met Trump  she revealed in an interview last year that she had once come close to crossing paths with the president at a concert.  Lawrence  told the UK’s Graham Norton Show that  she  had been at a concert and heard Trump was in attendance  and ordered  her  security team to find the then-presidential candidate.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Jonathan Swift ? 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.)

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Paul Haggis ? âI havenât seen that  no â the stunned Swank told Fox News at an FX event in Pasadena  Calif. of the report released just minutes earlier about  Paul Haggis   who won consecutive Oscars for screenwriting the Swank-starring "Million Dollar Baby" and writing and directing "Crash."

SOLUTION:
Positive