It could be a nice addition to allow for script-based rescoring:

POST /_search { "query" : { "match" : { "title" : { "query" : "ethics of ambiguity" } } }, "rescore" : { "window_size" : 100, "script": { "source": "_score + saturation(doc['num_likes'].value + doc['num_reviews'].value, 1)" } } } 

It’s already possible to accomplish script rescoring by using a script_score query in a query rescorer. A dedicated script rescorer could have couple of benefits:

• It’s a more intuitive, clear syntax.
• The script could have easy access to the scores from the original query. When using a script_score rescore query, we have to either (1) duplicate the original query inside the rescore query in order to access the scores, or (2) use a match_all as the inner query and combine scores using query_weight/ score_mode. An example can be found in this discuss issue.