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 Ali Bongo ? Ali Bongo will be sworn in as Gabon's president this week  succeeding his late father  after a top court upheld his victory in hotly disputed presidential polls.
 The oil- and timber-rich West African nation's Constitutional Court confirmed Bongo won the election prompted by the death of his father Omar Bongo Ondimba  who had ruled the country for 41 years.
 Chief Justice Marie Madeleine Mborantsuo confirmed Bongo as the poll winner with 41.79 percent of the ballot.
 Interim president Rose Francine Rogombe will formally hand over power to Bongo as part of the ceremony at the presidential palace in Libreville. The organisers have also planned a military parade and fireworks display.
 But the secretary general of Ali Bongo's Gabonese Democratic Party  Faustin Boukoubi  said he had "a feeling of full satisfaction."
 "Right and the law have prevailed " he said. "All Gabonese have a president who will get down to all the problems of the Gabonese people and make Gabon into an emerging country."
 If reaction to the court's ruling passes without incident  Ali Bongo still faces a difficult start to his presidency  observers say.
 However  according to an official of Mamboundou's UPG (Union of Gabonese People) party  the country's ethnic mix will severely test Bongo's ability to win consensus.
 "No-one is prepared to negotiate with him " said the official. Bongo  who comes from a minority ethnic group "will have lined up against him the Fang  the Punu  and Nzebis. The country is going to be ungovernable."

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Ellen Page ? âJunoâ star  Ellen Page  is a married woman.
 ELLEN PAGE  SAYS BRETT RATNER OUTED HER  MADE HER FEEL âVIOLATEDâ
 Page  posted the announcment on Instagram with a photo of the coupleâs hands showing off wedding bands on their ring fingers.
People reported the âFlatlinersâ actress began posting photos of her with Portner on her social media accounts over the summer.  Page  has posted videos of her with Portner doing interpretative dance and covering songs.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Nikolas Cruz ? Harrowing video footage taken from inside the high school where suspected shooter Nikolas Cruz opened fire on Wednesday shows distraught students crying and screaming as gunfire rings out.
That’s when police say  19-year-old Nikolas Cruz   equipped with a gas mask  smoke grenades and multiple magazines of ammunition  opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon  killing 17 people and sending hundreds of students fleeing into the streets.
 Nikolas Cruz   19  has been identified as the suspected shooter at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland  Fla.
Authorities offered no immediate details about  Cruz  or  his  possible motive  except to say that  he  had been kicked out of the high school  which has about 3 000 students.
Students who knew  him  described a volatile teenager whose strange behavior had caused others to end friendships with  him .

SOLUTION:
Neutral