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].

[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Kershaw Max Scherzer ? In such a crowded field  then  the essential question is simple: Who has been the best hitter? As long as  he  has also played capably on defense   he  should get the award. Votto it is.
Legacy should not matter in the voting  but it offers a compelling backdrop: Washington’s  Max Scherzer  is seeking his third Cy Young Award  and the Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw  his  fourth. Kershaw should win  but the margin is really close.
Scherzer has 26⅓ more innings than  Kershaw  — again  heading into the weekend — and has allowed 14 more earned runs. That comes to a 4.78 E.R.A. So imagine that the pitchers had the same stats through 171 innings  but  Kershaw  stopped and Scherzer continued — but was generally ineffective.
 Kershaw  gets the edge  but there is no wrong choice between the two. This much is certain: The two richest pitching contracts in N.L. history ($215 million for Kershaw  $210 million for Scherzer) have been wise investments this season.
[A]: Positive


[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Bernie Sanders ? Ashton seems to have learned the right lessons from that debacle , has taken inspiration from the insurgent , unapologetically progressive campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn , and hopes to both bring the NDP back to its left-wing roots and ride the same populist wave that propelled those two perennial afterthought backbenchers into the international spotlight .
[A]: Positive


[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Laurent Vacherot ? Speaking earlier about progress towards the merger   Essilor’s Chief Operating Officer Laurent Vacherot  said: “We are serene ” repeating that the deal was expected to close in the first half of 2018.
Announcing its annual results   Essilor  said  it  was targeting revenue growth of around 4 percent in 2018. Revenues rose 3.1 percent on a like-for-like basis to 7.5 billion euros last year  partly helped by higher sales in North America.
 Vacherot  said Essilor would keep pursuing  its  strategy of bolt-on acquisitions in 2018  particularly in China and India.
Luxottica  which has been restructuring since 2014  forecast on Monday steady growth in sales and profits this year.  Its  shares rose 5.2 percent.
[A]:
Neutral