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The SPECIALIST Lexicon

ASCII LEXICON

The Specialist LEXICON is distributed in UTF-8 format annually with UMLS. There are some NLP projects uses the Specialist LEXICON and still only dealing with ASCII characters. Due to the requests from user groups, the pure ASCII version of LEXICON is generated since 2009.