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The goal of the Atlas project is to increase the opportunities for students to construct their own knowledge by conversing in typed form with a natural language-based ITS. In this paper we describe two components of Atlas -- APE, the integrated planning and execution system at the heart of Atlas, and CARMEL, the natural language understanding component. These components have been designed as domain-independent rule based software, with the goal of making them both extensible and reusable. We illustrate the use of CARMEL and APE by describing Atlas-Andes, a prototype ITS built with Atlas sing the Andes physics tutor as the host.

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