Address recognition method and device

The embodiment of the invention discloses an address recognition method and device. A specific embodiment of the method comprises the steps of obtaining a first word set obtained by performing word segmentation processing on a to-be-processed address and region level information of regions indicated by words in the first word set respectively; in response to determining that the region level information corresponding to each word in the first word set comprises target region level information used for indicating a unit, acquiring a word corresponding to the target region level information in the first word set as a target word, and acquiring a preset unit name set, with the unit belonging to at least one of the following items: a public institution, an administrative unit and an enterpriseunit; and in response to determining that the unit name set comprises a matching unit name of the target word, determining the matching unit name as an identification result of the to-be-processed address and outputting, the