Next step: unsupervised word segmentation. That way they could maybe apply this unsupervised translation system to undeciphered texts, e.g. Linear A, Rongorong,

Next step: unsupervised word segmentation. That way they could maybe apply this unsupervised translation system to undeciphered texts, e.g. Linear A, Rongorong, etc. I doubt it will work since most of the undeciphered scripts have a very small corpus, but maybe worth a try.