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mti "correct"?

ram writes:


By the way, I have no idea how anyone could prove that the design of an
MT interlingua is flawless.  It would require linguistic science that is
far more advanced than anything we have today.  Proving the correctness
of an interlingua would be orders of magnitude more difficult than
proving the correctness of a piece of software.
it seems to me that the only way to prove the correctness of an mti is empirically.  if it works very well, then it is essentially correct.  if it works poorly or not at all, then it is incorrect.  
any talk of the "correctness" of an mti seems pointless anyway.  let's talk about its effectiveness or reliability, or perhaps the correctness of the translation results.  (or is this what was meant by the correctness of the mti to start with?)

Rick, would you be willing to send me a copy of the Katanda software, since it is now obsolete?

Steven