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 James Myers ? One New York couple who have taken that approach are  James Myers   33  and Corinne Fisher  32  both professional comedians from Harlem.  Myers  is vocal about  his  support for Trump; Fisher  who was a staunch Hillary Clinton supporter  is just as vocal about her opposition.
Fisher said she defends  Myers â freedom to choose.
âI stick up for  his  right to think something  even if I totally disagree â she says.
She also respects  Myers â courage. âHe gets private messages from other people who arenât courageous enough to be out about their views â she said.
âMy love for Corinne is based on deep respect â said  Myers . âIf you respect someone  you donât have to agree with them on everything. Sheâs been pretty brave about this whole thing.â
 Myers  added that passion can trump (pun intended) disagreement.
âMingle with those with whom you disagree â  he  said. âIt can be hot.â

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Jackie Robinson ? When  Jackie Robinson  broke baseball's color barrier in 1947  not only was the color of  his  skin different but so was the cap  he  wore.
In the pre-batting helmet era   Robinson  had to have a specially-made Brooklyn Dodgers cap to "protect  his  head from beanballs â  his  widow  Rachel Robinson  wrote in a 1994 letter.
 Robinson 's cap had three protective plates sewn inside the lining to guard against opposing pitchers who wanted to take our their anger over a black player being in the big leagues.
Jackie Robinson Museum to break ground in Manhattan
âThis is the only cap to this date that I have ever made available to the collecting public â wrote  Rachel Robinson  in the letter shared by Lelands. âThe cap is 100% original and was game worn by  Jackie Robinson  during his career as a Brooklyn Dodger. â
A Jackie Robinson baseball cap that has protective plates  sewn in to protect  his  head from beanballs. (Courtesy of Lelands)
 Robinson  batted .297 with 12 home runs and 29 stolen bases while collecting Rookie of the Year honors in 1947. The six-time All-Star was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1962 and his No. 42 is the retired throughout Major League Baseball.
Granderson honors Jackie Robinson by his actions on and off field

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Lidia Bastianich ? When  Lidia Bastianich  tells you to eat the pasta  you should eat the pasta.
Nearly 20 years ago  thanks to her award-winning PBS shows   Bastianich  became a food star and introduced countless Americans to real Italian cooking  which even then was dominated by ubiquitous red sauce and pasta dishes.  She  credits Julia Child for  her  TV break. After coming to one of  Bastianich âs restaurant  Child âwanted me to teach  her  how to make risotto and then  she  had me on  her  show. The producer then said âyouâre pretty good. How about a show of your own?â And thatâs how it evolved â  she  remembers. Child âencouraged me.  She  said âLidia  you do for Italian cuisine what I do for French.â We remained friends.â
In real life   Bastianich  has a no-nonsense but warm demeanor  which  she  exudes on  her  show. Countless hours spent watching  her  on TV gave me the false sense that we were old friends and at times during our meal  as  she  doted on me  it felt like I had found my long-lost nonna.
âA lot of adults tell me âI watched [the show] since I was a kid with grandma.â You know what that tells me? Itâs been a few years â  she  jokes. âIt pleases me because food is all about bringing people together and relating to each other â  she  adds more seriously.
But even after decades of cooking on TV  running a restaurant empire and helping to start the wildly popular chain of Eataly stores   she  insists that  she  still enjoys cooking at home. In fact   she  just published  her  eleventh book  Lidiaâs Celebrate Like an Italian  which  she  co-wrote with  her  daughter  Tanya Bastianich Manuali  and includes 220 recipes for everything from cocktails to soup to dessert. âI havenât invented one of them â  she  admits. âI modified some. Iâve changed a little bit here and there.â
If anything   she âs too modest and was very concerned about making the recipes as approachable as possible. âI take these recipes and simplify them as much as I can â  she  says  since  she  actually wants the reader to learn them and enjoy using them. While in  her  restaurants  the emphasis is the opposite  itâs âto create that moment that the guest will not be able to do at home.â Most of the dishes at Del Posto certainly would fit into that category. Speaking of which  when I try to get  her  to order more food for  herself   in true grandmother fashion   she  dodges my suggestions and insists âI can talk while you eat.â
While I enjoy a delicious heirloom tomato salad  the aforementioned pasta and perfectly cooked swordfish fillets   she  shares with me  her  familyâs fascinating story of coming to America.  She  was born in Istria  which before World War II was part of Italy  but afterwards became part of communist Yugoslavia.  Her  family fled to Italy and lived in a refugee camp for two years before emigrating to America when  she  was 12. Itâs an experience that  she  thinks a lot about today as the country debates its policies about letting in immigrants. âMost of us are immigrants except for the Indians â  she  says. And for  her  that struggle is personal and one that is wrapped up with being a chef. âFood is all about the story of a people through the ages â  she  reminds me.
When  her  family got to America  she  was in for a surprise. âThe Italian food I didnât recognize it when we first came here â  she  says since it was so different than what  she  had grown up eating.  She  did  however  immediately fall in love with boxed cake mixes that  she  would whip up each night. Catholic Relief Services put them up in a hotel for three weeks when they first arrived and then  her  father found a job and a small apartment in Queens that they moved into.
 She âs reticent to tell me more  since  she âs working on a memoir that should be out next year  which will go into greater detail about  her  familyâs story and  her  rise to culinary stardom. While Iâm a bit disappointed   Bastianich  promises weâll meet next year to discuss  it . I canât wait.

SOLUTION:
Positive