Searching through noise for pros and cons

Googling for the search term "Nuclear Energy" on

the internet yields approximately 268 million hits: Explanations, definitions, lobbying texts, newspaper articles, anecdotes, conspiracy theories. How can someone, for example an investor, seeking real pro and con arguments regarding nuclear

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power as a decision-making aid, find what they are looking for? The project "ArgumenText" in the field of Fachgebiet Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) of the Department of Computer Science of TU Darmstadt is aimed at filtering out concrete arguments from voluminous and heterogeneous masses of text.

Recently, a demo of the search system came on the scene which has already proven its worth at trade fairs. For example, anyone who researches the subject of "Nuclear Energy" will, after a few seconds, see just under a hundred arguments for and against nuclear power – from a variety of Internet sites. The better CO2 balance and the efficiency of atomic energy generation are listed here, along with the toxicity and hazardous nature of the substances used and the long periods during which they exude radioactive waste into their surroundings. The respective sources are linked.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-09-noise-pros-cons.html#jCp