Part 1. Definition
In this task, you are given books product reviews in English language. The goal is to classify the review as "POS" if the overall sentiment of the review is positive or as "NEG" if the overall sentiment of the review is negative.
Part 2. Example
Hopeful for those who seek harmony in the world . I wouldn't recommend this to anyone who thinks that religious wars, repression of individual spirits or rape of the earth are good things. Those who seek peace, harmony, celebration of each of us and respect for our earth will find this hopeful
Answer: POS
Explanation: The overall sentiment of the review is positive as the reviewer mentions positive expressions such as 'hopeful', 'will find this helpful' etc.. Hence, the label is 'POS'.
Part 3. Exercise
I truly enjoyed it, but I have a couple concerns . Let me start by saying that I thoroughly enjoyed this work. If you haven't read Michener before, this is a great place to start. Typical of Michener, he tells the story of a region over the course of centuries in this book. Michener has selected a particular river that feeds the Chesapeake, the Choptank, as his primary locale, but has populated it with geotypical persons, plantations, and towns, rather than any specific actual persons or towns from the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake. Having grown up in Maryland, I experienced a great deal of nostalgia for the areas he describes. The characters he creates are believable and complex. The stories he tells across the centuries are compelling. I do have three concerns. The first is minor -- in the green-covered paperback the word "scow" (a flat-bottomed boat) has been replaced with the word "snow" in every instance save one. This makes for some odd reading, especially in the early chapters. The second seems petty -- I actually believe there is not quite enough information in a nearly 1000-page novel. He mentions guano trade, which significantly affected the Eastern Shore, only in one sentence at the end of the book. He doesn't explain some of the early economies very clearly. (With what was salt purchased from Tortuga? There was no cash available, and credit with Fithian seems unlikely to have extended there.) Islands other than the fictional Devon island (e.g. Tighlman Island) suddenly become important at the end of the book, and are referenced as "the old rivals of Patamoke." If they are old rivals, why didn't they appear before? Did this get cut out of the book? My third concern is a very strange charge to levy against Michener. As anyone who has seen the musical "South Pacific" knows, Michener is strongly opposed to racism. Certainly in this book there are whites, blacks, and indians of the full range of character and talent. However, the book still seems to have a strange racist undertone that I can't shake from my mind. It comes from how Michener ties his story together across the centuries. Every Janney is feckless (except for the one who becomes a Steed). Every Steed is enterprising, although not necessarily industrious. Every Turlock is craven. Every Cater is proud, even if this is expressed differently across the generations. Every Paxmore is upstanding, even the sad-sack Pusey Paxmore believes he is acting in an upstanding manor until he looks back on what he's done. One Steed even refuses to acknowledge her own grandchildren because they have Turlock blood in them, and is praised by the author for doing so. I realize that Michener was using a shorthand to help the reader keep characters straight across the centuries, but the result is rather too "geneticist," arguing that genes determine destiny
Answer:
POS