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However, the existing methods suffer from two key limitations: the insufficient utilization of semantic information, especially non-standardized attributes, and the lack of differentiated modeling for 1:1, 1:M, and M:N matching relationships. To address these issues, this study proposes a geometric\u2013attribute collaborative matching method for multi-scale polygonal entities. First, matching relationships are classified into 1:1, 1:M, and M:N based on the intersection of polygons. Second, geometric similarities including spatial overlap, size, shape, and orientation are computed for each relationship type. Third, semantic similarity is enhanced by fine-tuning the pre-trained Sentence-BERT model, which effectively captures the complex semantic information from non-standardized descriptions. Finally, a three-branch attention network is constructed to specifically handle the three matching relationships, with adaptive feature weighting via attention mechanisms. The experimental results on datasets from Tunxi District, Huangshan City, China show that the proposed method outperforms the existing approaches including geometry\u2013attribute fusion and BPNNs in precision, recall, and F1-score, with improvements of 3.38%, 1.32%, and 2.41% compared to the geometry\u2013attribute method, and 2.91%, 0.27%, and 1.66% compared to BPNNs, respectively. A generalization experiment on Hefei City data further validates its robustness. 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