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 Taylor Swift ? Taylor Swiftâs lawyers  are trying to shake off claims that the âShake It Offâ singer stole lyrics with a new court motion.
 Swift  was sued in September by songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler  who created the song âPlayas Gonâ Playâ for the girl group 3LW in 2001. The duo claimed that  Swift  stole their lyrics and used them in her famous hit single âShake It Off.â
On Wednesday  the singerâs lawyers asked the federal judge to dismiss the copyright lawsuit against  Swift  and argued that the concepts of players playing and haters hating are common music phrases and âpublic domain clichÃ©sâ that canât be claimed as copyright  according to Variety.
 Swift  used the familiar phrase in the chorus of her song which says  âPlayers gonna play  play  play  play  play  and haters gonna hate  hate  hate  hate  hate.â
âThere can be no copyright protection in âplayas  they gonna play and haters  they gonna hate â because it would impermissibly monopolize the idea that players will play and haters will hate â  Swift âs lawyers said. âPlaintiffsâ claim to being the only ones in the world who can refer to players playing and haters hating is frivolousâ¦ Providing a copyright monopoly in the phrase would prevent others from sharing the idea that players play and haters hate.â
To further prove their argument   Swift âs legal team went on to cite other examples of famous songs that use the âplayerâ and âhaterâ phrase such as âDreamsâ by Fleetwood Mac  in which the song says  âPlayers only love you when theyâre playing â and âPlaya Hater â by the Notorious B.I.G.  where the phrase âplaya  playa haterâ is used as the part of the songâs chorus.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Lloyd Blankfein ? Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein  has bitcoin on  his  mind  a day after reports broke that  his  firm was considering setting up a bitcoin trading operation.
The billionaire banker tweeted on Tuesday that  he  wasn't completely sure about  his  stance on the red-hot cryptocurrency.
 Blankfein  said  he 's "still thinking about bitcoin" and that  he  was not flat out endorsing or denouncing the digital currency. Here's the full tweet:
Still thinking about #Bitcoin. No conclusion - not endorsing/rejecting. Know that folks also were skeptical when paper money displaced gold. â Lloyd Blankfein (@lloydblankfein) October 3  2017

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Michael Moore ? President Donald Trump took on one his most vocal celebrity critics Saturday in a message posted to his Twitter account   calling filmmaker Michael Moore’s  anti-Trump summer Broadway show a “total bomb” that was “forced to close.”
“While not at all presidential I must point out that  the Sloppy Michael Moore Show on Broadway  was a TOTAL BOMB and was forced to close. Sad!” Trump tweeted Saturday evening about  Moore’s  show.
While not at all presidential I must point out that  the Sloppy Michael Moore Show on Broadway  was a TOTAL BOMB and was forced to close. Sad! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 28  2017
Trump was  of course  referring to  Moore ’s Broadway show The Terms of My Surrender  a play in which the filmmaker took aim at Trump and his policies and often brought out celebrity guests to help bash the president. The play opened in late summer and ran for twelve weeks at New York City’s Belasco Theater.
The show was also mostly panned by critics  with one Los Angeles Times reviewer calling it a “support group for disheartened Democrats ” and one in which  Moore  casts  himself  both as a “victim of the right” and a “champion of all mankind.”
 Moore  fired back at the president Saturday in a series of tweets  explaining that the show had always been intended to play as a limited engagement and saying at least one senior member of Trump’s White House was a fan of the filmmaker’s.
“You must have my smash hit of a Broadway show confused with your presidency- which IS a total bomb and WILL indeed close early. NOT SAD ”  Moore  wrote in the first of eleven messages.
 Moore  also suggested that Trump was using the play as  his  “latest distraction” from  his  “crimes ” and called the president a “loser.”
“For now  at least  I know I still have one fan in the White House (thx for your unwavering support Jared!)”  he  concluded  his  tweets.
10) On Broadway  Donald  they call it a "LIMITED ENGAGEMENT" — just like we’re planning on making your presidency. — Michael Moore (@MMFlint) October 29  2017
11) For now  at least  I know I still have one fan in the White House (thx for your unwavering support  Jared!) pic.twitter.com/mTwLxW4KgR — Michael Moore (@MMFlint) October 29  2017
During one August performance   Moore  took the audience that had come to see him that night on a pair of double-decker buses to a protest outside Trump Tower  where he was joined by celebrities including Mark Ruffalo and Olivia Wilde.
 Moore  told the audience at the protest that the group was there to perform a “citizen’s arrest.”

SOLUTION:
Neutral