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Current mainstream geocoding methods fall into two categories: geodesic-grid prediction and address matching. However, the geodesic-grid-prediction method\u2019s localization accuracy is hindered by the density of grid partitioning, struggling to strike a balance between prediction accuracy and grid density. Address-matching methods mainly focus on the semantics of query text. However, they tend to ignore keyword information that can be used to distinguish candidates and introduce potential interference, which reduces matching accuracy. Inspired by the human map-usage process, we propose a two-stage address-matching approach that integrates geodesic-grid prediction and text-matching models. Initially, a multi-level text-classification model is used to generate a retrieval region proposal for an input query text. Subsequently, we search for the most relevant point of interest (POI) within the region-proposal area using a semantics-based text-retrieval model. We evaluated the proposed method using POI data from the Beijing Chaoyang District. 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