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 Maia ? Then Balfour popped the question to their dog   Maia  with a pink rhinestone collar.
 âIt was a plan Iâve had for a while â said Balfour. âWe got  Maia  right around the same time we moved in together. Sheâs been a part of our family. It felt wrong to not include  her  in the proposal somehow. I knew I wanted  her  there for the photos  for sure. It made sense to have something for  her  as well.â
Getzinger said Balfourâs decision to include  Maia  was âliterally the sweetest thing ever.â
âI thought it was so cute â  she  said. â She âs super important to  me .  She âs with  me  all day every day. The fact he went out of his way to include  her  was really special to  me .â
â She  is our fur child â said Getzinger. âIâd like to involve  her  in the ceremony. If not the ceremony  definitely for pictures right after.  She  gets very excited when thereâs lots of people around.â
The wedding will take place on Getzingerâs dadâs farm  so âthereâs lots of space out there for  her  to run around â  she  said.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Bahtiyar Duysak ? TechCrunch  the industry website owned by AOL  has tracked down the ex-Twitter employee it says is responsible for the Nov. 2 incident: His name is  Bahtiyar Duysak   and he is described by the tech site as "a twenty-something with Turkish roots who was born and raised in Germany."
Twitter has declined to confirm his identity. However   Duysak  says he was a contractor at management services company Pro Unlimited and had been assigned to Twitter's Trust and Safety division  the department that sorts through alerts from users reporting abusive behavior or violations of the company's terms of service.
On his last day at Twitter HQ in San Francisco   Duysak  says  he  received a report on the president's account. TechCrunch writes: "as a final  throwaway gesture   he  put the wheels in motion to deactivate it. Then  he  closed  his  computer and left the building."
 He  says  he  didn't think the account would actually be deactivated and  in any case  calls the whole thing a "mistake."
However   Duysak  contends that  he  didn't do anything wrong either. "I didn't hack anyone "  he  tells the tech site. "I didn't break any rules."
 He  said as a consequence of  his  actions   he 's been hounded by reporters on social media and that  he  hopes by coming forward  he  can clear the air and "continue an ordinary life."

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Joe Lonsdale ? The New York Times Magazine recently profiled the troubling  potentially criminal relationship between a former Stanford student  Ellie Clougherty  and entrepreneur Joe Lonsdale who was  among other things  Clougherty’s mentor for the undergraduate course Engineering 145: Technology Entrepreneurship.
As the story unfolds  it becomes increasingly disturbing.  Lonsdale  and Clougherty’s relationship evolves from that of a mentor and mentee into a romantic relationship and then  Clougherty alleges  into something much more disturbing—including sexual harassment and assault. Clougherty took the case to Stanford officials and  Lonsdale  was banned from the Stanford campus for ten years (though that ban seems theoretical at best  given that  according to Bazelon   “Lonsdale  has been invited to campus for a private lunch which he attended with the university’s permission.”). Clougherty filed a civil suit in January and  Lonsdale  has responded  vigorously   and filed a countersuit  denying Clougherty’s accusations.
 Lonsdale  never treated Clougherty as someone who had goals and dreams. Instead   Lonsdale   by engaging in a personal relationship with  his  young mentee  treated her as a romantic conquest. He ignored his professional responsibility for personal gain.  Lonsdale  insists that  “Ellie is a forceful person ” as if  somehow  that negates the inherent power imbalance not only in a mentor/mentee relationship  but also between a 21-year old college student and a hugely successful 29-year old entrepreneur.
Alumni are a natural source of mentoring for colleges and universities. These alumni and their success stories are living proof that the education at any given college or university works  and that the current students are making a wise  invaluable investment in their future. Joe Lonsdale is one of countless alumni who have been tapped by their alma maters to work with promising undergraduates. Unfortunately  though  many universities seem to think that getting mentors on campus is all they need to do. There is  all too often  little oversight and few systems in place to help students when these relationships become troubled.

SOLUTION:
Neutral