For the time being, you can refer to Chapter 2 of the technical report I wrote for MAP-i's Scientific Activities, for documentation about Army ANT: Army ANT: A Workbench for Innovation in Entity-Oriented Search.
As an information retrieval researcher, defining an engine in Army ANT (i.e., implementing an index() and search() methods) will give you direct access to a web interface with the following features. You can check Army ANT's sequence diagram to better understand what a typical workflow looks like.
You can also check the command line examples for index and extras, as well as information about the demo instance and how to install it using Docker. Finally, you can view the Web UI in action through available screenshots.
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