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I Can Parse You: Grammars for Dialogs Hirzel, Martin Mandel, Louis Shinnar, Avraham Simeon, Jerome Vaziri, Mandana Bots virtual agents dialog managers domain-specific languages Humans and computers increasingly converse via natural language. Those conversations are moving from today's simple question answering and command-and-control to more complex dialogs. Developers must specify those dialogs. This paper explores how to assist developers in this specification. We map out the staggering variety of applications for human-computer dialogs and distill it into a catalog of flow patterns. Based on that, we articulate the requirements for dialog programming models and offer our vision for satisfying these requirements using grammars. If our approach catches on, computers will soon parse you to better assist you in your daily life. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Martin Hirzel and Louis Mandel and Avraham Shinnar and Jerome Simeon and Mandana Vaziri 2017 Is Part Of LIPIcs, Volume 71, 2nd Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2017) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2017.6 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-71180 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2017.6 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode