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 Nancy Pelosi ? Before Ryan spoke   Nancy Pelosi  again called on him to commit to a vote on immigration  saying he acts more as a Speaker of the White House than a Speaker of the House. The early vote took place because of Sen. Rand Paul who blocked action in the Senate for must of Thursday with a demand on an amendment leaving previous ceilings on federal spending in place.
âI ran for office because I was very critical of President Obamaâs trillion-dollar deficits â said  the Kentucky senator . âNow we have Republicans hand in hand with Democrats offering us trillion-dollar deficits. I canât in all honesty look the other way.â
âI have been offering all day to vote. I would like nothing more than to vote. But itâs the other side. Itâs the leadership that has refused to allow any amendments â  he  said.
 Nancy Pelosi  even shared a strange anecdote during an eight hour Wednesday floor speech about a Guatamalan boy with âbeautiful tan skinâ and âbeautiful brown eyesâ that  her  grandson wished he looked like.
Listen to  Nancy Pelosi  talk about  her  grandson wanting to have âbeautiful tan skinâ and âbeautiful brown eyesâ. like  his  friend Antonio â a Guatemalan. White guilt is disgusting. Itâs even worse when you brainwash a child to hate his own skin and eye color. pic.twitter.com/nLXp5OIfDD â Based Monitored ðºð¸ð®ðª (@BasedMonitored) February 8  2018
Representative Nancy Pelosi of California  the Democratic leader  told a closed-door meeting of House Democrats that she would oppose the deal  and said that Democrats would have leverage if they held together to demand a debate on immigration legislation. But she suggested that she would not stand in the way of lawmakers who wanted to vote their conscience. Pressing the issue further  Ms. Pelosi and the next two highest-ranking House Democrats sent a letter to Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin noting their desire for the government to remain open and imploring him to make a public statement about the scheduling of a vote on legislation to protect young immigrants brought illegally to the country as children who are now shielded by the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program  or DACA. âNYT

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity George Papadopoulos ? The answer to that seemingly unimportant question is suddenly a key element of the deepening scandal surrounding the campaignâs contacts with Russia  following revelations that one member of the team  George Papadopoulos  communicated with Russians connected to the Kremlin. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has said several times that the answer is one  implying that the foreign policy council was an unimportant body and  Papadopoulos  was a minor player in the campaign.
 Papadopoulos  admitted to special counsel Robert Muellerâs investigative team that  he  had ongoing contacts with Kremlin intermediaries during the campaign. The White House quickly downplayed the significance of the revelation last week  claiming that  Papadopoulos  was barely involved with the campaign. The campaign was certainly aware of  his  connections to Russia because  Papadopoulos  suggested using them to set up a meeting between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a March 2016 meeting of the foreign policy team with Trump present. But  Sanders  has emphasized that that was itâthat the campaignâs foreign policy team  a group of volunteer advisers headed by now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions  met only that one time.
âIâm telling you that  he  was a volunteer member of an advisory council that literally met one time â  Sanders  said during a press briefing on October 30.
But on Thursday  Page told the House Intelligence Committee that  he  spoke to Sessions at a dinner in Washington  DC  in June 2016 about an upcoming trip  he  was making to Russia. According to CNN  the dinner was a gathering of members of the foreign policy council. âA source familiar with the meeting told CNN that the encounter occurred at a dinner at the Capitol Hill Club  attended by members of the Trump national security team  including Sessions â the network reported. âNear the end of the dinner  Page approached Sessions to say hello and thanked the then-senator for the dinner  and Page also mentioned  he  was headed to Russia. Sessions didnât respond and moved on to the next person waiting to shake  his  hand  this source said.â

SOLUTION: Negative

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Fernando Solorzano ? Fernando Solorzano   head of Panamaâs Merchant Marine  told Reuters there was no initial sign that the stricken ship was in breach of any security protocols.  He  added  though  that investigations could take months or even years to conclude.
âIt had all the valid technical certificates on board and the financial guarantees required under international agreements â  Solorzano  said in an interview late on Thursday.
An international team of experts from China  Iran  Hong Kong and the crewâs home countries would be analyzing the voyage data recorder  a device that monitors the vesselâs progress  to determine the cause of the collision   he  added.
 Solorzano  said all vessels sailing under the flag had to comply with strict requirements.  He  conceded the event could adversely affect the image of the registry because it is known for having a low rate of incidents.

SOLUTION:
Neutral