Applying Topic Models to bibliographic search: some results in basketball domain

Bibliographic search finalized to identify relevant material about the specific problem to be faced is normally the first phase to be accomplished when starting a new research activity. Such literature analysis can be heavily time consuming, and often only a little part of the analysed material is actually useful. In this short paper, results of using Topic Models approach as support tool for bibliographic search are reported and compared to results obtained analysing via the classic manual approach on a corpus of 495 papers about basketball domain.