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 Travis Kalanick ?  Kalanick : I think it starts with understanding that the world is going to go self-driving and autonomous. Because  well  a million fewer people are going to die a year. Traffic in all cities will be gone. Significantly reduced pollution and trillions of hours will be given back to people â quality of life goes way up. Once you go  "All right  there's a lot of upsides there" and you have folks like the folks in Mountain View  [California ] a few different companies working hard on this problem  this thing is going to happen.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Al Thomas ? FILE PHOTO:  Charlottesville Chief of Police Al Thomas  (L) and Charlottesville City Manager Maurice Jones listen to speakers during a public forum hosted by the Department of Justice Community Relations Service after a rally by far-right demonstrators led to the death of a counter protester in Charlottesville  Virginia  U.S.  August 27  2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Pope Francis ? More than 620 000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh - where  the pope  heads on Thursday - since the end of August  escaping from a military crackdown that Washington has said included âhorrendous atrocitiesâ aimed at âethnic cleansingâ.

SOLUTION:
Positive