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 Deborah Rutter ? âThe Honors are the greatest weekend of the year  and it is also the bane of our existence  â Deborah Rutter  said with a laugh. For the president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts  the annual Kennedy Center Honors  airing on CBS on Dec. 26 and honoring dancer Carmen de Lavallade  rapper LL Cool J  television producer and writer Norman Lear and singers Gloria Estefan and Lionel Richie  is a welcome national spotlight on the memorial to the late president. But thatâs all anyone seems to know about the the white jewel box on the Potomac.
âWe really like to think about the other 364 days of the year  and all of the programming that happens on those days â  Rutter  told me in the latest episode of âCape Up.â âWhat I love about being here at the nationâs cultural center is that we have really a mandate to welcome all of the performing arts. It is not just a performing arts center for one assumed art form or another.â
I bet you didnât know that hip hop was one of those art forms at the Kennedy Center and that Q-Tip is its artistic director. âThis is a first â  Rutter  said. âAnd as far as I know  there is no other artistic director for hip-hop â¦ anywhere in probably the world. And weâre very proud to have Q-Tip here leading  guiding and inspiring us.â
While she didnât need much convincing   Rutter  allowed that there could be others who might â for fear of what it could mean for the other arts. âJust because we are bringing in more programming that includes hip-hop artists  it does not mean that weâre doing less dance or less international programming or less of the National Symphony Orchestra â she said. âIt just means that weâre doing more  that we have thrown open the doors of the Kennedy Center  and we are ensuring that all are welcome here.â
 Deborah Rutter   president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts  talks with The Postâs Jonathan Capehart on the âCape Upâ podcast on Nov. 28 in her office at the Kennedy Center. (Jonathan Capehart/The Washington Post)
There are nine performance spaces at the Kennedy Center that are in use all year. In addition to the orchestra and  the Washington National Opera  Rutter  noted the 46-year-old institution has âa magnificent  world-recognized ballet season. We have contemporary dance  we have jazz  we have a huge jazz series  chamber music  recitals  comedy  international programming.â
Listen to the podcast to hear  Rutter  talk further about the work of the Kennedy Center and how it fits into the cultural life of Washington.  She  goes into what it is like to be the local performing arts center for members of Congress  foreign diplomats and âquite a number of justices from the Supreme Court.â But  Rutter  insists none of those constituencies tries to exert influence over programming.
âHere at the center we have no limits on what we could present â  Rutter  told me. âThe problems I always describe is how to say no  when to say no  and how to not be really  truly overwhelmed by the extraordinary limitless richness of what happens here.â

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Adam Matos ? The Tampa Bay Times reports that  32-year-old Adam Matos  was found guilty Thursday of four counts of murder. The penalty phase starts Monday 
 Matos  could get the death penalty if all 12 jurors vote for that. Otherwise he would be sentenced to life in prison.
Authorities say  Matos  fatally shot Megan Brown and her father  Greg Brown  at their Hudson home in 2014.  He  also fatally beat Margaret Brown and Nick Leonard with a hammer  jurors heard.
 Matos  testified Wednesday  he 'd been suffering from paranoia and committed the slayings in self-defense.
The 4-year-old son of Megan Brown and  Matos  was at the home when the killings occurred.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Eminem ? SYDNEY (Reuters) - A New Zealand political party has been ordered to pay more than $400 000 to  U.S. rapper Eminem  for using music similar to his 2002 hit "Lose Yourself" in a television commercial to help win a national election.
The track  played during the National Party's successful 2014 election campaign and titled "Eminem Esque"  was found by a New Zealand court to have "substantially copied" Lose Yourself.
"This decision is a warning to sound-alike music producers and their clients everywhere " Adam Simpson  director of Simpsons Solicitors  who acted for  Eminem âs music company  Eight Mile Style  said in a statement.
"It was no coincidence that the works sounded the same and the undeniable inference to be drawn from the evidence is that the composer of Eminem Esque had 'Lose Yourself' in front of him at the time of composition " the court added.

SOLUTION:
Positive