From September 24 to September 26 I was in Halle (at the river Saale) in Germany attending FGIR 2007. FGIR is part of LWA, an annual event of several interest groups of the German Computer Society. The venue was located at the computer science instate of the Martin Luther university. The community represented by the different interest groups (all of them in some form related to knowledge) was very interesting and for 20€ of registration feed you even got refreshments and snacks .
We had two papers there: In the presented first we focused in detail on the evolution of the associative retrieval component (which was first presented at i-Semantics). Besides simply presenting the obtained results in this paper we argued why our chosen approach to evaluation of an information retrieval on the Semantic Desktop is valid. With the German interest group for information retrieval we had the perfect audience for this talk.
The other paper presented is a survey of current approaches to information retrieval in the Semantic Web and on the Semantic Desktop. In this paper we also try to find a definition what information on the Semantic Web actually is.