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 Danny Finley ? Danny Finley  has been the coroner for Clay County  a rural area in the southeastern part of the state  since 2011. But thatâs not his primary job. Heâs an insurance broker working primarily in health care and a licensed funeral director  although heâs not currently active in that role.
At the time he was elected   Finley  said  Clay County was in the midst of a serious drug problem. According to KIPRC  the county of roughly 22 000 people had 25 drug overdose deaths that year. But it wasnât clear which drugs were responsible  so  Finley  couldnât tell whether the countyâs drug problem was the same or different from those in other parts of the state.
In Kentucky  more thorough death investigations and better cause-of-death data allowed  Finley  and other officials to respond to the specific problems in Clay County.  Finley  was able to determine that prescription medications were the root of the drug problem in  his  county. âMost of the media reporting was on meth labs â  Finley  said. âI would look at my data  and although meth labs were serious problems  they were not the problems I was having in Clay County.â
Since then   Finley  said  there has been a collaborative effort among hospital emergency department practitioners to better educate county residents on the dangers of misusing prescriptions and to stop overprescribing opioids and benzodiazepines  a class of drugs typically used for anxiety or panic disorders.
Aside from data management  an important element of Hargroveâs job is to help county coroners across the state discover their roles as public health officials. Hargrove nodded to  Finley  as an official who has effectively helped rally a local community to fight the epidemic. According to a KIPRC report released in August  Clay County had only five overdose fatalities in 2016  a notable drop from the 25 it had five years earlier.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Kellyanne Conway ? CNN's Chris Cuomo and White House adviser  Kellyanne Conway  have a history of heated exchanges . Thursday's interview following President Trump's visit to Las Vegas was perhaps the most contentious.
Cuomo asked  Conway  why now was not the appropriate time to have a gun control debate.  Conway  said the victims of the shooting have been the president's focus  before  she  started railing against Democrats for politicizing the issue.
âThis conversation wasnât being had until tragedies like this strike by those who try to be the loudest voices â  Conway  said. âYou see Hillary Clinton talking about herself  not talking about this. You see her rushing to judgement the other day on Twitter  while people are still looking through the rubble  searching the hospital for their missing loved ones  trying to politicize it.â
 Conway  again insisted that the president was too busy caring for the survivors to bring up control.

SOLUTION: Negative

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Claremont McKenna ? Claremont McKenna  part of the Claremont Colleges cluster outside Los Angeles  acknowledged Monday that a senior officer had resigned after admitting that he had inflated the average SAT scores given to U.S. News since 2005.
SAT score averages are also reported to credit rating firms and the Department of Education  which is looking into  Claremont McKennaâs  actions  said Justin Hamilton  the agencyâs press secretary. He said the department could impose fines and other penalties for supplying misinformation  but rarely did  particularly if the college brought the problem to light on its own.
 Ionaâs  case was extreme; U.S. News ranked its undergraduate college 30th among âregional universitiesâ in the Northeast  but estimated that with correct data it would have dropped to 50th.
Also last year  the law schools of Villanova University and the University of Illinois acknowledged that they had misreported some statistics; Villanova conceded that its deception was intentional  while Illinois did not say. And at the United States Naval Academy  famous for its honor code  a professor recently accused administrators of inflating the number of applicants  which the academy has denied. In 2009  a number of institutions were found to be inflating their percentages of full-time professors â another criterion used in ranking systems. The impact and extent of  Claremont McKennaâs  cheating remains unclear. In a statement to the college staff and students  the president  Pamela B. Gann  wrote  âAlthough the degree of inaccuracies varied over time  we understand that the reported critical reading and/or math SAT scores were generally inflated by an average of 10-20 points each.â
Mr. Morse said that without more precise information  he could not measure how such a change might have altered the collegeâs ranking  but it might have made the difference in cracking the top 10 of liberal arts colleges  a bragging right that  Claremont McKenna  reached this year for only the third time.
 Claremont McKennaâs  reputation has risen over the years; as recently as 1990   it  was not in the U.S. News top 20. But  it  is often conscious of the comparison with  its  neighbor  Pomona College  which U.S. News rated fourth among liberal arts colleges.
Mr. Vos had been dean of admissions at  Claremont McKenna  since 1987. âHe was always one of the people that I considered one of the good guys in the profession â said Ralph Figueroa  director of college guidance at Albuquerque Academy  a private day school in New Mexico.
In her Monday statement  Ms. Gann  the college president  said  Claremont McKenna  discovered the discrepancy in reported SAT scores and conducted an internal review  during which one senior administrator stepped forward to take sole responsibility.

SOLUTION:
Neutral