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 Bill Gates ? Bill Gates  and Richard Branson have some big goals.
Branson wants to go to space and send hyperloop pods shooting through underground tunnels at the speed of airplanes.  Gates  wants to rid the world of Polio and Alzheimer's disease  as well as implement the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's extensive list of other moonshots. Both the Microsoft founder and Virgin Group founder backed a start-up that grows meat in a lab and hopes to reduce the environmental impact of raising livestock.
And while some challenges seem insurmountable â even for a pair of the world's most powerful people â Branson and  Gates  agree it's crucial to chase big ideas  even if success isn't immediate.
" Bill  and I spoke about the importance backing long-shot projects " Branson writes on his blog about a meeting the billionaires had Tuesday. The two met in Paris for a summit focused on one such challenge  climate change.
"I've learned so much from  Bill .  He  built a formidable company and decided to put  his  vast wealth into solving the problems of the world " Branson writes.
For Branson himself  dreaming big has also been key to  his  success.

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 Kavous Seyed-Emami ? Kavous Seyed-Emami  was managing director of the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation  which seeks to protect Iranâs rare animals  and a U.S.-trained scholar in sociology.
Seyed-Emamiâs son  the Iranian musician Raam Emami  wrote on Twitter that his father was arrested on Jan. 24  and that his mother had been informed of  Emami âs death on Feb. 9. It was not immediately clear where he was tweeting from.
âThe news of my fatherâs passing is impossible to fathom â  Raam Emami  wrote. âI still canât believe this.â
On his Instagram account   Raam Emami  wrote that authorities said  his  father had committed suicide.  He  did not respond to requests for further comment.

SOLUTION:
Neutral