After some silent time in the field of information retrieval in the semantic web, search in the next generation web seems to be an upcoming topic in different research communities. Recently two calls for papers have been posted. Both are CFPs from workshops. One is hosted on the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) the other one is hosted the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR).
If you are interested in research related to information retrieval / search and semantic web you might be interested in these two meetings:
