14. The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein said one or more rules produce said result values based on the context of said term.
11. An apparatus for selecting one or more terms for a glossary in a document processing system, comprising: a processor; a memory; and a data storage coupled to the processor, the data storage comprising instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the apparatus to: receive a selected term from within a document at said computer that has been rejected by a spell checker selected from a document where said term is one of a misspelled word or a misspelled phrase; apply a set of one or more rules to said term, each of said rule being arranged to assign a result value to said term as at least one of a Boolean or ordinal value, wherein said result value is an output score of the term when processed by a rule; apply a function to said term, said function being arranged to combine said assigned result values to produce an overall probability value relating to the likelihood of said term being a candidate for inclusion in a glossary associated with said document; and present: said term as a candidate term for inclusion in said glossary, and said assigned result values; in response to receiving an approval to include said candidate term in the glossary, store said candidate term to said glossary with a record of one or more of said result values assigned by said set of one or more rules; in response to receiving a denial to include said candidate term in said glossary, discard said candidate term; and provide an indication of whether said term was subsequently included in said glossary.