Editing Decipherment (section)

=== Computational approaches ===
Computational approaches towards the decipherment of unknown languages began to appear in the late 1990s.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Knight |first1=Kevin |last2=Yamada |first2=Kenji |date=1999 |title=A Computational Approach to Deciphering Unknown Scripts |url=https://aclanthology.org/W99-0906.pdf |journal=Unsupervised Learning in Natural Language Processing}}</ref> Typically, there are two types of computational approaches used in language decipherment: approaches meant to produce translations in known languages, and approaches used to detect new information that might enable future efforts at translation. The second approach is more common, and includes things such as the detection of cognates or related words, discovery of the closest known language, word alignments, and more.<ref name=":2" />