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I have problems using the ACM advanced search at https://dl.acm.org/search/advanced I only want to search for abstracts, so I choose the abstract field in the "Search within" block. To provide a simple example, I use the following search query:

change impact AND software AND graph AND algorithm

With that, I got 179 Results.

I double checked the results by looking in the first abstract (Multi-perspective change impact analysis using linked data of software engineering) and everything was fine. But in the second abstract (Change impact analysis for aspect-oriented software evolution) the terms for "graph" and "algorithm" are missing.

I did some testing with something like:

change impact AND (software OR artifact) AND scenario

and got results where the "scenario" term is missing in the abstract. My original search term is way more complex than that simple example.

So what I am missing or is the search engine broken?

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  • This is asking about use of another product. Do we do Tech Support here? – jnovack Sep 27 '20 at 21:18
  • Just as an example – a1nez Sep 28 '20 at 06:48
  • I have the same problem. The query is correct but it includes results that simply do not match the query. – tlqs Jan 29 '21 at 09:50
  • For example: I have the same problem with search within Title. The query [Publication Title: "recommendations"] AND [Publication Title: "machine learning"] returns a paper with title "Recommendations as treatments: debiasing learning and evaluation"... – tlqs Jan 29 '21 at 10:00

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