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 Fergie ? Fergie  apologized on Monday for  her  sultry version of the national anthem the night before that didn’t go over so well at the NBA All-Star Game  particularly on social media. Even Roseanne Barr chimed in.
 Fergie   42  acknowledged that  her  slowed-down jazzy version – as described by People magazine – didn’t strike the right note. Others described  her  take on the “Star Bangled Banner” as “sexy.”
"I've always been honored and proud to perform the national anthem and last night I wanted to try something special for the NBA "  she  said  per People. "I'm a risk taker artistically  but clearly this rendition didn’t strike the intended tone. I love this country and honestly tried my best."
"Something insane and terrible happened before tonight’s NBA All-Star Game " said Chris Thompson  a writer for sports website Deadspin. "No one will ever be able to explain it to my satisfaction. Even in the context of the NBA's disastrous  shriekingly awkward pregame nightmare   Fergie’s national anthem  was an absolute abomination. A goose being strangled in your living room would produce a much more pleasant series of noises."
Actress and comedian Roseanne Barr  whose rendition of  the national anthem  in 1990 at San Diego's Jack Murphy Stadium was roundly criticized as one of the worse  per the Sporting News  even criticized Ferguson's performance on Twitter.
Who saw  Fergie 's national anthem performance at the NBA All Star Game? I think mine was better lowkey — Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) February 19  2018
Fergie’s rendition of  the National Anthem  was originally written by Francis Scott Out of Key. — bob saget (@bobsaget) February 19  2018
 Fergie  sang  that anthem  so bad  Kaepernick stood up and told  her  stop with the disrespect. — Bãlldiñhö™ 🇧🇲 (@Balldinho) February 19  2018
Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas just gave us the drunken aunt at your wedding version of the Star Spangled Banner. Yikes. — Jason Greene (@JasonGreene17) February 19  2018

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Scott Walker ? What no one mentioned is that Sulzbergerâs journalism is appreciated by a surprising figure: Wisconsinâs Republican Governor Scott Walker  who used an article co-written by Sulzberger to bolster the resolve of wavering GOP lawmakers in the midst of Walkerâs ferocious attack on public sector unions in 2011.
Walkerâs description was generally accurate. The Times article portrays a conflict between the intellectual elites in Madison who âpredictably opposeâ Walkerâs plans and the real Wisconsinites âaway from Madisonâ who believe that âpublic workers needed to share in the sacrifice that their own families have been forced to make.â It quotes six people who work in the private sector who support  Walker âs crackdown on public sector unions  and only two who donât like it.
However  this three-to-one ratio in support of  Walker  seems slightly peculiar  given the voting patterns in the area. The eight Wisconsinites lived in towns across Rock  Walworth and Jefferson Counties.  Walker  won 55 percent of the vote in the three counties in 2010  and 54 percent in the 2012 recall election. Both times  Walker  actually lost Rock County  where Janesville is located  making up for it in the other two  redder counties.
Also notable is  Walker âs excitement that the lede on the story is about a man named Rich Hahn  whoâd been laid off twice by GM. The reason for Walkerâs joy is obvious: The piece originally described Hahn as âa union man from a union townâ who nevertheless believed âsomething needs to be done â¦ and quicklyâ about greedy public unions. However  after the United Auto Workers found no record of Hahn as a member  the Times ran a correction reading that while Hahn âdescribed himself to a reporter as a âunion guy â he now says that he has worked at unionized factories  but was not himself a union member.â

SOLUTION:
Neutral