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 Hakeem Olajuwon ? HOUSTON —  Hakeem Olajuwon  is now a Rockets adviser who has expressed interest in an ownership stake. So the Nigerian great no longer can run  his  post skills school where  he  once hosted Amar’e Stoudemire as a Knick.
Nevertheless   Olajuwon  said  he  would love to work with 7-foot-3 Kristaps Porzingis  but frankly  the retired Rockets superstar doesn’t think  he  needs much help. Porzingis already has dabbled in attempting the “Dream Shake’’ earlier this season.
“I think [ he  makes it] easy ’’  Olajuwon  said. “ He ’s very skilled  very smart. The height  he  has the advantage in the post. The guy that got skill in the post game   he ’s already amazing. It gets much easier for  him .”
 Olajuwon  missed the chance to see Porzingis live Saturday as the Knicks star sat out the Rockets game at Toyota Center with back stiffness. Porzingis’ improvement this season has been  his  post game — more in the mid-post than deep inside.
“Everyone can always get stronger ’’  Olajuwon  said. “But  he ’s fantastic  always plays with confidence  has a lot of moves  shooting 3s. I think the post game is most important because of  his  length.  He ’s so skilled  he  can do whatever  he  wants on the floor.”
“I’ve tried the Dream Shake  but I wouldn’t say I can do it like  him  ’’ Porzingis said. “Not close.’’

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Tim Cook ? Apple CEO  Tim Cook  is already thinking about who might run the company after  he 's gone.
And it sounds like  he  wants options.
"I see my role as CEO to prepare as many people as I can to be CEO  and that's what I'm doing. And then the board makes a decision at that point in time "  Cook  said in an interview with BuzzFeed News.
 Cook  gave the interview at Apple's new Chicago retail store  a flagship for the company as it looks to turn its locations into must-see attractions.
Apple's head of retail  Angela  Ahrendts  flanked Tim Cook during the interview . It's not surprising  she  was there  but it is notable for  Cook  to discuss succession next to  her .  Ahrendts  is considered a prime candidate for the role. Of course  at just 56 years old   Cook  might not step away for a while.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Bernie Sanders ? After the Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses wrapped up last month , Bernie Sanders and his campaign team had a decision to make : pick the next goal . 
Thus far , officials with Hillary Clinton 's campaign and the DNC have been working with Sanders ' team , but the senator has n't won every fight . 
Sanders also fought for an endorsement of single-payer health care and a new tax on carbon , but the party was n't prepared to go along with these provisions , either . 
The Washington Post 's Greg Sargent noted late last week , shortly before the platform draft was released , that Sanders has won "some big victories ," and that 's absolutely true . 
As of late last week , there can be little doubt that Sanders has succeeded : as MSNBC 's Alex Seitz-Wald reported , Dems are moving forward with "what is almost certainly the most progressive platform in the party 's history ." 
That said , as an objective matter , Sanders has had at least as much of an impact on the Democratic platform as any second-place finisher in modern times . 
And yet , over the holiday weekend , Sanders wrote an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer arguing that his victories are n't enough : the platform , he said , "needs to be significantly improved ." 
On Wall Street , the platform lays out a number of reforms proposed by Clinton , Sanders and other Democrats , and states the party "will not hesitate to use and expand existing authorities as well as empower regulators to downsize or break apart financial institutions ," it states . 
And while it 's very likely that Sanders will follow through on that commitment , it 's unclear when , exactly , he 'll start pursuing this goal . 
There can be little doubt that many of these provisions and more -- reforming the carried-interest loophole , postal banking , the industry ties of Federal Reserve board members -- can be attributed directly to the Sanders campaign 's role in negotiating the terms of the platform . 
We 'll never know for sure , but part of me wonders what the presidential race would look like right now if Sanders , once the race for the Democratic nomination wrapped up , had quickly endorsed Clinton , helped unite progressive voters , and focused his energies less on the platform and more on becoming one of the party 's leading anti-Trump voices -- all while positioning his movement as a powerful contingent in Democratic politics .

SOLUTION:
Positive