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 Allen Elseth ? A Salt Lake County jail booking statement released Thursday says  28-year-old Allen Elseth  was taken into custody after a state trooper smelled marijuana at an accident scene.
Documents say  Elseth  ran across Interstate 80 after the officer let him out to urinate and jumped a barbed-wire topped fence into an airport parking lot.
Authorities say  Elseth  climbed on top of the driver and hit the gas  but the lawmen hung on until they stopped the car and subdued him with a Taser.
No attorney was immediately listed for  Elseth .

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Isaiah Thomas ( ? Isaiah Thomas  lasted just 15 games on LeBron James’ team. And now Cleveland has undergone a massive roster overhaul  unloading six players in different deals.
The Cavs sent  Thomas  and Channing Frye to the Lakers for Jordan Clarkson and Larry Nance Jr. on Thursday just before the NBA trade deadline to start things off.
Isaiah Thomas (l.) and LeBron James part ways after just 15 games together. (Jason Miller/Getty Images)
Despite all the upheaval  it was the  Thomas  trade that headlined the Cavs’ moves. Cleveland landed  Thomas  in a shock trade with the Celtics in August after Kyrie Irving said he was tired of playing in LeBron’s shadow. The Cavs pulled off the trade despite knowing that Thomas’ hip injury would sideline him for a good chunk of the season.
In his brief run with the Cavs   Thomas  averaged 14.7 points and 4.5 assists in 14 starts. Cleveland went just 7-8 with  Thomas  in the lineup.
“ He ’s worked too hard to get back  and  he ’s a ball dominant player ” Thomas’ agent  Aaron Goodwin  told ESPN. “It’s LeBron’s ball  and this clearly wasn’t working. (Cavs GM) Koby (Altman) and I have had enough conversations where it was clear  with the way the system was going  it wasn’t beneficial for either party. This is a good opportunity for Isaiah.”
The Thomas trade also ends the awkwardness of a return trip to Boston this weekend. The Celtics had initially planned a tribute video to Thomas’ three seasons in Boston on the same night Paul Pierce was going to have his jersey retirement ceremony. After Pierce grumbled about having to share the stage with  Thomas   the 5-9 guard took the high road.
“I’d like to thank the Celtics for their gracious offer to play a video tribute on Feb 11th celebrating my 3yrs in Boston ”  Thomas  tweeted in January. “But since it appears this has caused some controversy w/Paul Pierce’s night I’d ask the Celtics instead to focus all of their attention on #34’s career.”
It’s pretty clear  Thomas —  who as recently as Wednesday night was saying  he  was “tired of being traded” — will not be receiving a tribute video for  his  15 games with the Cavaliers if  he  returns to play in Cleveland at some point this season or next.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Michelle Obama ? There will be a museum  of course  but also a basketball court  maybe a room for yoga classes  and a "test kitchen" to teach visitors “about the full production cycle of nutritious food" (likely pushed by  former first lady Michelle Obama   whose signature issue during  her  tenure was a campaign for healthy eating).
There were details that offered hints about where things have gone since we saw the initial plans for a three-building complex — an obelisklike tower housing a museum  a forum building and what could be a small branch of the Chicago Public Library — in Jackson Park’s northwest corner. The tower’s top floor could be a space for reflection  free and open to the public  with views of Lake Michigan and the surrounding city  including the Collegiate Gothic spires of the University of Chicago. The museum itself  a multilevel facility with exhibition spaces lodged in the tower’s midsection  would be open only to visitors who buy tickets. Obama  the architects said  wants an outdoor plaza framed by the three buildings to be able to host food trucks. A fourth building south of the main cluster  an athletic center  would house facilities including a basketball court where the former president could shoot hoops. A display board showed pictures suggesting the center could also include a dance studio and a room for yoga classes. The athletic center  according to the display board  “will offer visitors opportunities to enjoy neighborhood athletic activities.” Other display boards pictured a recording studio in the forum building that would provide “a place of creative expression” for the center’s visitors; an outdoor garden that would pay homage to Michelle Obama’s White House garden; and a test kitchen that would teach visitors “about the full production cycle of nutritious food” — a prominent cause for the former first lady.
My problem isn’t the design  though the centerpiece is a tower  heavy around the midsection and tapering to a narrow top and bottom. To me  it evokes a soft-boiled egg in a giant eggcup. What brought me up short was a space in the adjoining Forum building labeled “test kitchen.” Presumably that reflects  Michelle Obama ’s war on junk food. The museum’s champions similarly suggest it could host yoga classes. President Obama  is that how you want to be remembered? As the healthy-eating and meditation-advocating president?
We guess so. It's all a bit weird  but maybe that's a perfect way to memorialize  Obama .

SOLUTION:
Positive