The invention provides a system and method for personal address book management. The system comprises a client and a server. The client includes: a monitoring control module, which is used for monitoring whether received new short messages exist in the monitoring control module; an information filtering module, which is used for filtering the received short messages to only keep a short message related to an address book; a first sending module, which is used for sending the short message related to the address book to a server; and an address book updating module, which is used for updating a local address book based on received analyzing results. The server includes a semantic analysis module and a second sending module; the semantic analysis module is used for carrying out a semantic analysis on the short message related to the address book so as to extract name information, number information, number type information, and information for determining whether an old number is kept or not, wherein the information is related with address book updating; and the second sending module is used for using the extracted name information, the extracted number information, the extracted number type information, and the extracted information for determining whether an old number is kept or not as the analyzing results and sending the analyzing results to the client.