IPL at ImageCLEF 2010

This paper describes the participation of the IPL team in the ImageCLEF-2010 campaign. Our research group has participated in the ad hoc task the case-based and the modality tasks of image retrieval based only on textual data. To reach our aim we performed a quantitative evaluation of Lucene search engine using several state of the art similarity functions. Our runs per- formed moderately well using the MAP and the early precision (P10) metric.