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 Ramis Ruiz ? Plaintiffs Ramis Ruiz   21  and John Messing  41  accused  their  fellow volunteer EMTs at the Bay Shore-Brightwaters Rescue Ambulance of sexual harassment  bullying and discrimination.
According to the suit   Ruiz  was slandered during a election for the serviceâs assistant chief position by charges that she was âsleeping around with (fellow) membersâ to win votes for her candidate.
 Ruiz  complained about sexual harassment and bullying  but gripes fell on deaf ears.
Messing claimed he was suspended after backing  Ruiz  in her gripes about harassment  and eventually fired from the department.
The pair sued the ambulance service along with four of its officials.  Ruiz  and Messing requested a jury trial in the case.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Hillary Clinton ? Former secretary of  state Hillary Clinton  speaks to and meets voters in Allendale  Mich.  on Nov. 7  2016. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
How do you write a primal scream? Because my head is about to explode over the story about alleged sexual harassment on  Hillary Clintonâs  2008 presidential campaign and  her  appallingly mild response  then and now.
To recap  while we were still reeling from the report that President Trump ordered the firing of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III last summer  the New York Times posted this: âHillary Clinton Chose to Shield a Top Adviser Accused of Harassment in 2008.â
According to the Timesâ Maggie Haberman and Amy Chozick  Burns Strider   Clintonâs  faith adviser â yes  faith adviser  you canât make this stuff up â was accused of repeatedly sexually harassing a young woman with whom he shared a campaign office. The Times: â She  told a campaign official that Mr. Strider had rubbed  her  shoulders inappropriately  kissed  her  on the forehead and sent  her  a string of suggestive emails.â
The campaignâs response? Campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle recommended that Strider be fired. So did Jess OâConnell  the national director of operations  who handled the investigation. And  Clinton  herself? Not so much  apparently. The young woman  not identified in the story  was moved to a different job. Strider â then married  by the way â was âdocked several weeks of pay and ordered to undergo counseling.â Which  predictably  he never attended.
And  even more predictably  when he was hired years later to oversee an independent group backing  Clintonâs  second presidential campaign  âHe was fired after several months for workplace issues  including allegations that he harassed a young female aide  according to three people close to Correct the Recordâs management.â
This is head-exploding stuff  but thereâs worse to come. Because now â now  after Harvey Weinstein and #MeToo and Roy Moore â this was Hillary Clintonâs belated response  in its bland totality: âA story appeared today about something that happened in 2008. I was dismayed when it occurred  but was heartened the young woman came forward  was heard  and had her concerns taken seriously and addressed.â
And classically  infuriatingly  this episode and its aftermath exposes  once again  the trademark Clinton failure to take personal responsibility; the allergy to owning up to error; the refusal to cede any ground  no less apologize; the incessant double-standarding  with different  more forgiving rules for the Clintons and their loyalists. Imagine a Hillary Clinton who said something like this:
Imagine that Hillary Clinton. She doesnât exist.

SOLUTION: Negative

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Meltony Billie ? Meltony Billie  the teenager’s father  urged the public to help other missing people find their way home.
In interviews before her body was discovered   Billie ’s parents said  she  loved cooking and dreamed of opening a bakery or becoming an executive chef. Meltony Billie said his daughter made him crepes for Father’s Day and described her as “a comical young lady” who also loved dogs  especially their 10-year-old Shih Tzu named Rahab.
Investigators said  Billie  entered the base about 5 a.m. on Sept. 18 but never arrived at work. A short while later  video shows  her  Mini Cooper leaving the base  but it was not clear whether  Billie  was in it  officials said previously.
Authorities recovered  her  cellphone in a dumpster in the Norfolk area  and on Sept. 23 they recovered  her  car in Norfolk as well.

SOLUTION:
Neutral