diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8fd5fd72..6e0360b3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -146,6 +146,15 @@ def giveme(message, something):
     message.reply('Here is {}'.format(something))
 ```
 
+You can use group name as kwargs:
+```python
+from slackbot.bot import respond_to
+
+@respond_to('Hello (?P<name>.+)')
+def say_hello(message, name):
+    message.reply('Hello! {}'.format(name)
+```
+
 If you would like to have a command like 'stats' and 'stats start_date end_date', you can create reg ex like so:
 
 ```python
diff --git a/slackbot/dispatcher.py b/slackbot/dispatcher.py
index fff97c83..dd0675b5 100644
--- a/slackbot/dispatcher.py
+++ b/slackbot/dispatcher.py
@@ -48,11 +48,11 @@ def dispatch_msg(self, msg):
 
     def _dispatch_msg_handler(self, category, msg):
         responded = False
-        for func, args in self._plugins.get_plugins(category, msg.get('text', None)):
+        for func, args, kwargs in self._plugins.get_plugins(category, msg.get('text', None)):
             if func:
                 responded = True
                 try:
-                    func(Message(self._client, msg), *args)
+                    func(Message(self._client, msg), *args, **kwargs)
                 except:
                     logger.exception(
                         'failed to handle message %s with plugin "%s"',
diff --git a/slackbot/manager.py b/slackbot/manager.py
index 65a20ebe..298fd74d 100644
--- a/slackbot/manager.py
+++ b/slackbot/manager.py
@@ -69,8 +69,17 @@ def get_plugins(self, category, text):
         for matcher in self.commands[category]:
             m = matcher.search(text)
             if m:
+                kwargs = m.groupdict()
+                args = tuple(
+                    v for i, v in enumerate(m.groups())
+                    if (i + 1) not in matcher.groupindex.values()
+                )
                 has_matching_plugin = True
-                yield self.commands[category][matcher], to_utf8(m.groups())
+                kwargs_utf8 = {
+                    to_utf8(k): to_utf8(v)
+                    for k, v in kwargs.items()
+                }
+                yield self.commands[category][matcher], to_utf8(args), kwargs_utf8
 
         if not has_matching_plugin:
-            yield None, None
+            yield None, None, None
diff --git a/tests/unit/kwarg_plugin_module.py b/tests/unit/kwarg_plugin_module.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0d3f0d3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/kwarg_plugin_module.py
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+from slackbot.bot import respond_to
+
+
+@respond_to('Hello, (?P<name>.+)')
+def say_hello(message, name):
+    message.reply('Hello! {}'.format(name))
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_dispatcher.py b/tests/unit/test_dispatcher.py
index 11ae4b87..00f39750 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_dispatcher.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_dispatcher.py
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ def default_okay(self, message):
 
     def get_plugins(self, category, message):
         if message == 'no_plugin_defined':
-            return [[None, None]]
+            return [[None, None, None]]
         if category == 'default_reply':
-            return [[getattr(self, 'default_'+message), []]]
+            return [[getattr(self, 'default_'+message), [], {}]]
         else:
-            return [[getattr(self, message), []]]
+            return [[getattr(self, message), [], {}]]
 
 
 class FakeClient:
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_manager.py b/tests/unit/test_manager.py
index 76450736..8825a8b5 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_manager.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_manager.py
@@ -18,10 +18,25 @@ def test_import_plugin_single_module():
     assert 'fake_plugin_module' in sys.modules
 
 
+def test_kwargs():
+    pm = PluginsManager()
+    pm._load_plugins('kwarg_plugin_module')
+
+    msg = {
+        'category': 'respond_to',
+        'text': 'Hello, Jeong Arm',
+    }
+
+    func, args, kwargs = next(pm.get_plugins(msg['category'], msg['text']))
+    assert not args
+    assert kwargs == {'name': 'Jeong Arm'}
+
+
 def test_get_plugins_none_text():
     p = PluginsManager()
     p.commands['respond_to'][re.compile(r'^dummy regexp$')] = lambda x: x
     # Calling get_plugins() with `text == None`
-    for func, args in p.get_plugins('respond_to', None):
+    for func, args, kwargs in p.get_plugins('respond_to', None):
         assert func is None
         assert args is None
+        assert kwargs is None